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Engineering salaries in the United States
Median $190k a year across 10,355 live postings that publish pay; the middle half runs from $150k to $235k. 89% of the 11,616 live postings in this segment publish a band at all.
The middle half: $150k to $235k. The ends are folded into the outer bars.
- Internship$80k
- Entry level$128k
- Mid level$163k
- Senior$190k
- Staff$230k
- Principal$238k
- Manager$238k
- Director$255k
- Executive$222k
Bars are the middle half of published bands; the tick is the median.
Highest-paying employers
humans&median of 2 published bands$450k
Anthropicmedian of 254 published bands$363k
Thinking Machines Labmedian of 24 published bands$350k
Patreonmedian of 4 published bands$340k
Perplexity AImedian of 2 published bands$333k
Mercormedian of 42 published bands$330k
Sierramedian of 47 published bands$310k
Hiring the most right now
SpaceXopen roles in this segment1,688
OpenAIopen roles in this segment310
Databricksopen roles in this segment249
CesiumAstroopen roles in this segment226
K2 Spaceopen roles in this segment192
Applied Intuitionopen roles in this segment176
Robloxopen roles in this segment171
By job title
| Title | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | $190k | 83 |
| Software Engineer | $173k | 70 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $179k | 54 |
| Staff Software Engineer | $238k | 40 |
| GTM Engineer | $170k | 25 |
| Security Engineer | $175k | 22 |
| Mechanical Engineer | $128k | 19 |
| Senior Full Stack Engineer | $165k | 18 |
The best-paid openings in this segment
- Executive Assistant, Chief Hardware Officer & Head of AutonomyZipline · South San Francisco, California, USA$55k to $24310k
- Systems ArchitectElevenLabs · Remote$70k to $8000k
- Senior Data Integration Engineer - BangaloreShippeo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN$20k to $4000k
- Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)Anthropic · San Francisco, CA $500k to $850k
- Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent ScalingAnthropic · San Francisco, CA $500k to $850k
- Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)Anthropic · San Francisco, CA $500k to $850k
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Questions this data answers
What is the median salary for engineering roles in the United States?
$190k a year in base pay, across 10,355 live postings that publish a salary band. The middle half of those bands runs from $150k to $235k.
What do the best-paid engineering roles in the United States offer?
One in ten published bands has a midpoint above $285k, and one in ten sits below $123k.
How many engineering job posts publish a salary?
89% of the 11,616 live postings in this segment state a pay range. The figures here are drawn only from those.
Do remote engineering roles in the United States pay less?
Remote postings publish a median of $207k against $185k for on-site and hybrid ones, from 2275 and 8080 postings respectively.
Which companies pay the most for engineering roles in the United States?
Among employers with at least two published bands, the highest medians right now are at humans& ($450k), Anthropic ($363k), Thinking Machines Lab ($350k).
Where does this data come from?
Base pay only, as employers publish it in their own job posts: the midpoint of each annual range, in the currency most postings use. Equity, bonus and commission are not in it. Updated daily.
Base pay only, as employers publish it in their own job posts: the midpoint of each annual range, in the currency most postings use. Equity, bonus and commission are not in it. Read off the live postings on Refolk's job board, where an employer is only counted while the posting is open. Updated daily.