Vulnerability management salary: $192K median
The median advertised Vulnerability management salary is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $240K: counted from 399 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $92 an hour or $16,000 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $290K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Vulnerability management jobs
$192Kmedian advertised salary
$154K – $240Kmiddle half of roles
$204Kaverage advertised salary
399roles counted
Vulnerability management salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $241K, 29% more than senior roles ($187K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $187K | $160K–$216K | 124 |
| Lead and above | $241K | $211K–$275K | 96 |
| No level in the title | $172K | $148K–$225K | 177 |
Vulnerability management salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $230K | 104 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $211K | 73 |
| 🇺🇸California | $204K | 155 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $204K | 35 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $198K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $195K | 360 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $187K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $168K | 24 |
Skills that pay more for Vulnerability management roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI agents | $245K | +$53K | 40 |
| TypeScript | $239K | +$47K | 39 |
| Threat modeling | $224K | +$32K | 111 |
| ISO 27001 | $219K | +$27K | 76 |
| Application security | $219K | +$27K | 158 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 11 |
| OpenAI | $338K | 10 |
| Replit | $288K | 3 |
| Ripple | $262K | 3 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 3 |
| Okta | $253K | 4 |
| Headway | $250K | 7 |
| Databricks | $248K | 3 |
| Roblox | $243K | 3 |
| Twenty | $243K | 6 |
| Samsara | $230K | 5 |
| BitGo | $219K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $204K | 3 |
| MongoDB | $204K | 6 |
| Flexport | $196K | 4 |
| Braze | $192K | 10 |
| K2 Space | $190K | 4 |
| Metropolis | $190K | 4 |
| True Anomaly | $175K | 7 |
| Anduril Industries | $172K | 21 |
| Twitch | $166K | 6 |
| RapidFort, Inc. | $165K | 9 |
| Socket | $162K | 5 |
| Whoop | $162K | 4 |
| Applied | $160K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Vulnerability management roles
All Vulnerability management jobs- Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RLAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$500K - $850KMachine LearningLLMReinforcement learning
- Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform SecurityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA$485K - $625KGoLinuxVulnerability management
- Senior Director, Privacy, Product and Platform SecurityRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$458K - $526KLead and aboveApplication securityVulnerability managementThreat modeling
- Security - Member of Technical StaffGoodfire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$250K - $500KIncident responseApplication securitySSO
- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Security Engineer, Application SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridPythonJavaC++
- Security Engineer, Application SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸Seattle$266K - $445KPythonJavaC++
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Application SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGCPCI/CDAI agents
- Member of Technical Staff, Vulnerability ManagementInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KvLLMLinux administrationApplication security
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Security EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $395KHybridGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Product Security EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Second St)$266K - $395KHybridSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Product Manager, Data & Platform InfrastructureTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$184K - $389KLead and aboveSecurity clearanceAI agentsData quality
- Staff Product Manager, Data & Platform InfrastructureTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$184K - $389KLead and aboveSecurity clearanceAI agentsData quality
- Engineering Manager, Security (Cloud, Infrastructure & Application Security)Replit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $387KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Principal Security Field EngineerDatabricks · 🇺🇸Remote - California$216K - $372KRemoteLead and aboveVulnerability managementSIEMEDR
- Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Global Security OfficeMongoDB · 🇺🇸United States$185K - $363KLead and aboveGCPAzureJira
- Security EngineerGigaml · 🇺🇸San Francisco$210K - $350KPythonTypeScriptNode.js
- Director, Product Security, PSIRTOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; San Francisco, California$224K - $345KLead and aboveMachine LearningSecurity clearanceAI agents
Questions about Vulnerability management pay
- What is the average Vulnerability management salary?
- $204K a year on average and $192K at the median, across 399 open Vulnerability management 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 $154K to $240K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Vulnerability management pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($338K), Replit ($288K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a vulnerability management a high-paying job?
- The median Vulnerability management posting advertises $192K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 10% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a vulnerability management?
- A tenth of the postings offer $290K a year or more; the highest open Vulnerability management role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Vulnerability management salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $192K a year is about $92 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,000 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $115 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Vulnerability management roles?
- Postings that ask for AI agents (+$53K, 40 postings), TypeScript (+$47K, 39 postings), Threat modeling (+$32K, 111 postings) advertise more than the $192K median of all Vulnerability management 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 Vulnerability management roles at companies is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $240K. Counted from 399 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/vulnerability-management/
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