VPN salary: $172K median
The median advertised VPN salary is $172K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $140K to $208K: counted from 209 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $83 an hour or $14,333 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $239K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll VPN jobs
$172Kmedian advertised salary
$140K – $208Kmiddle half of roles
$178Kaverage advertised salary
209roles counted
VPN salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 30% more than senior roles ($176K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $176K | $148K–$206K | 81 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $206K–$280K | 27 |
| No level in the title | $154K | $122K–$200K | 101 |
VPN salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $188K | 56 |
| 🇺🇸California | $186K | 94 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $175K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $174K | 189 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $161K | 18 |
Skills that pay more for VPN roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| DLP | $229K | +$57K | 21 |
| Cloud security | $229K | +$57K | 35 |
| Zero trust | $215K | +$43K | 58 |
| Go | $209K | +$37K | 26 |
| CISSP | $206K | +$34K | 22 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Netskope | $232K | 18 |
| Cloudflare | $220K | 6 |
| Airwallex | $214K | 4 |
| Okta | $206K | 3 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $200K | 5 |
| Tailscale | $197K | 8 |
| CoreWeave | $195K | 4 |
| True Anomaly | $180K | 6 |
| Pico | $175K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $172K | 8 |
| Fivetran | $171K | 4 |
| Socure | $168K | 5 |
| Sciforium | $165K | 3 |
| Braze | $154K | 4 |
| xAI | $149K | 3 |
| Applied | $144K | 4 |
| Aviatrix | $142K | 5 |
| Icarus | $140K | 3 |
| Hermeus | $128K | 3 |
| Coretelligent | $85K | 5 |
Highest-paying open VPN roles
All VPN jobs- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KHybridGoPythonTerraform
- Software Engineer, Product VelocityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridPythonTypeScriptCI/CD
- Director, Regional SalesNetskope · 🇺🇸North Carolina, United States$350K - $425KLead and aboveVPNCloud securitySSO
- Director, Regional SalesNetskope · 🇺🇸Illinois, United States$350K - $425KLead and aboveVPNCloud securitySSO
- Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing InfrastructureInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonTerraformLinux
- Infrastructure LeadIntelligence Security Laboratories · 🇺🇸Washington, D.C.$205K - $375KHybridLead and aboveDockerLinuxCI/CD
- Senior Customer Engineer AI/ Start Up'sCloudflare · Hybrid$214K - $336KHybridSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare One (SASE/SSE)Cloudflare · Distributed$244K - $336KSeniorAI agentsNetwork engineeringDNS
- Senior Manager, Infrastructure EngineeringTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$220K - $320KSeniorTerraformAzureCI/CD
- Staff Solutions Engineer - West CoastGoteleport · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$276K - $307KRemoteLead and aboveGoLLMLinux
- Senior Solutions Engineer, EnterpriseTailscale · 🇺🇸Remote (United States)$250K - $300KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together CloudTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$260K - $300KLead and aboveGoTerraformGCP
- Staff Platform Engineer, SecurityTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$205K - $295KLead and abovePythonTerraformAzure
- Principal Solution EngineerAviatrix · 🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States$248K - $291KLead and aboveGCPAzureKubernetes
- Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerFivetran · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States, AMER$232K - $290KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Staff Product Security EngineerAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$220K - $280KHybridLead and abovePythonJavaKotlin
- Sr. Network Security EngineerSpaceX · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$165K - $280KSeniorNetwork engineeringTCP/IPVPN
- Senior Staff Network Architect, IT InfrastructureSoFi Tech Solutions · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$163K - $280KLead and abovePythonTerraformAWS
- Staff Network Security ArchitectZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$228K - $273KLead and aboveTerraformGCPLLM
- Staff Corporate Security EngineerAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$175K - $270KHybridLead and abovePythonGCPBash
Questions about VPN pay
- What is the average VPN salary?
- $178K a year on average and $172K at the median, across 209 open VPN postings at 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 $140K to $208K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest VPN pay?
- Netskope ($232K), Cloudflare ($220K), Airwallex ($214K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a vpn a high-paying job?
- The median VPN posting advertises $172K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 1% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a vpn?
- A tenth of the postings offer $239K a year or more; the highest open VPN role advertises up to $510K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the VPN salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $172K a year is about $83 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,333 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $67 to $100 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for VPN roles?
- Postings that ask for DLP (+$57K, 21 postings), Cloud security (+$57K, 35 postings), Zero trust (+$43K, 58 postings) advertise more than the $172K median of all VPN postings with pay.
- 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 VPN roles at companies is $172K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $140K to $208K. Counted from 209 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/vpn/
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