Terraform salary: $212K median
From 850 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$212Kmedian advertised salary
$182K – $246Kmiddle half of roles
$219Kaverage advertised salary
850roles counted
Terraform salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $237K, 17% more than senior roles ($202K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $202K | $185K–$223K | 348 |
| Lead and above | $237K | $216K–$275K | 174 |
| No level in title | $205K | $160K–$248K | 327 |
Terraform salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $225K | 335 |
| 🇺🇸California | $216K | 430 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $215K | 149 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $213K | 42 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $212K | 795 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $207K | 64 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $200K | 28 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $195K | 27 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $194K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $190K | 26 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $187K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $186K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $175K | 49 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $353K | 24 |
| Mercor | $345K | 4 |
| Anthropic | $342K | 9 |
| Lambda | $311K | 12 |
| Sierra | $310K | 7 |
| Sentry | $302K | 6 |
| Decagon | $300K | 4 |
| Replit | $288K | 8 |
| $276K | 3 | |
| Apollo.io | $274K | 5 |
| Gamma | $270K | 3 |
| Roblox | $269K | 9 |
| Rubrik | $266K | 3 |
| Harvey | $260K | 14 |
| Affirm | $260K | 7 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 5 |
| Harness | $255K | 11 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Fivetran | $253K | 3 |
| Ramp | $251K | 5 |
| Discord | $250K | 4 |
| Together AI | $248K | 10 |
| Baseten | $248K | 4 |
| Hex | $247K | 9 |
| SambaNova | $245K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Terraform roles
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- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KGoPythonTerraform
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise PlatformMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoTypeScriptPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer, Developer ProductivityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$210K - $490KPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KLeadTerraformAirflowdbt
- Engineering Director, AI EngineeringHex · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $425KLeadPythonTypeScriptReact
- Product Engineer, Personal AIRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KRustPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)Apollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$315K - $415KLeadPythonReactRuby
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KLeadPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Senior Software EngineerSardine · 🇧🇷Brazil$285K - $400KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, PlatformSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$260K - $400KLeadTerraformGCPKafka
- Senior Software Engineer, Foundational StorageSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$190K - $400KSeniorRustGoPython
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
Questions about Terraform pay
- What is the average Terraform salary?
- $219K a year on average and $212K at the median, across 850 open Terraform postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $182K to $246K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Terraform pay?
- OpenAI ($353K), Mercor ($345K), Anthropic ($342K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Terraform roles at tech companies is $212K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $182K to $246K. Counted from 850 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/terraform/
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