Zero trust salary: $204K median
The median advertised Zero trust salary is $204K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $166K to $249K: counted from 306 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $98 an hour or $17,042 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $279K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Zero trust jobs
$204Kmedian advertised salary
$166K – $249Kmiddle half of roles
$211Kaverage advertised salary
306roles counted
Zero trust salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $250K, 25% more than senior roles ($200K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $200K | $176K–$236K | 112 |
| Lead and above | $250K | $216K–$285K | 83 |
| No level in the title | $175K | $146K–$212K | 111 |
Zero trust salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $213K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $212K | 111 |
| 🇺🇸California | $210K | 142 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $204K | 34 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 266 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $192K | 19 |
Skills that pay more for Zero trust roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| BGP | $245K | +$41K | 30 |
| Application security | $242K | +$38K | 32 |
| Threat modeling | $240K | +$36K | 31 |
| SOC 2 | $236K | +$31K | 61 |
| ISO 27001 | $236K | +$31K | 41 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $345K | 4 |
| Roblox | $318K | 5 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 22 |
| Goteleport | $262K | 8 |
| Ripple | $262K | 3 |
| Suno | $260K | 3 |
| Zoox | $250K | 3 |
| Rubrik | $236K | 5 |
| True Anomaly | $232K | 6 |
| Netskope | $229K | 37 |
| Okta | $214K | 9 |
| Anduril Industries | $213K | 7 |
| Coinbase | $202K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $202K | 6 |
| Dark Wolf Solutions | $198K | 4 |
| 1X | $194K | 3 |
| Illumio | $185K | 46 |
| Tailscale | $175K | 6 |
| Datadog | $175K | 4 |
| Aviatrix | $164K | 4 |
| Braze | $154K | 4 |
| Elastic | $146K | 7 |
| 1Password | $118K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Zero trust roles
All Zero trust jobs- VP, Sales Engineering NAMNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$444K - $634KLead and aboveSD-WANCloud securityZero trust
- Senior Director Digital Native, Customer EngineeringCloudflare · Hybrid$326K - $513KHybridLead and aboveServerlessDNSSD-WAN
- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KHybridGoPythonTerraform
- Vice President, Platform OperationsNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$298K - $500KLead and aboveCDNNetwork engineeringData centers
- Staff + Software Security Engineer, Secure FrameworksAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Security Engineer, Corporate SecurityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$320K - $405KPythonLLMLinux
- Enterprise Account Executive - Public SectorKong · 🇺🇸Washington D.C., United States$320K - $400KRemoteZero trust
- Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise SecurityLambda · Bellevue Office$266K - $395KHybridSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Principal Security Software Engineer, IAMRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$326K - $385KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Chief Information Security OfficerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$252K - $382KLead and aboveCI/CDComputer VisionSecurity clearance
- Principal Security Engineer, Enterprise SecurityRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$321K - $366KLead and abovePythonAI agentsGoogle Workspace
- Staff Security EngineerMixpanel · 🇺🇸San Francisco$274K - $342KLead and aboveTerraformGCPLLM
- Staff Backend Engineer - Infrastructure Access - USGoteleport · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$222K - $342KRemoteLead and aboveGoLinuxZero trust
- Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - USGoteleport · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$222K - $342KRemoteLead and aboveGoLinuxZero trust
- Principal Mission Cloud EngineerTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$230K - $340KLead and aboveAzureCI/CDAWS
- Senior Customer Engineer AI/ Start Up'sCloudflare · Hybrid$214K - $336KHybridSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Director, Infrastructure SecurityCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$285K - $335KLead and aboveLinuxInfrastructure as codeData centers
- Lead Corporate Security EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$276K - $330KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptREST APIs
- Director of Product Management, SecurityPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$269K - $329KLead and aboveIAMZero trustNIST
Questions about Zero trust pay
- What is the average Zero trust salary?
- $211K a year on average and $204K at the median, across 306 open Zero trust 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 $166K to $249K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Zero trust pay?
- Anthropic ($345K), Roblox ($318K), Goteleport ($262K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a zero trust a high-paying job?
- The median Zero trust posting advertises $204K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 18% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a zero trust?
- A tenth of the postings offer $279K a year or more; the highest open Zero trust role advertises up to $634K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Zero trust salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $204K a year is about $98 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,042 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $80 to $120 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Zero trust roles?
- Postings that ask for BGP (+$41K, 30 postings), Application security (+$38K, 32 postings), Threat modeling (+$36K, 31 postings) advertise more than the $204K median of all Zero trust 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 Zero trust roles at companies is $204K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $166K to $249K. Counted from 306 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/zero-trust/
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