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Software Engineering Salary Guide

Compensation data from 13,224 job postings across 274 companies

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Median Salary
$174,950
Software Engineering roles
Jobs with Pay Data
13,224
postings with salary info
Salary Range
$154,450 – $203,500
25th to 75th percentile
Companies Reporting
274
with compensation data

Salary by Seniority

Median Software Engineering salary by experience level

intern
$92,560
junior
$110,000
mid
$169,050
senior
$192,500
staff
$225,625
principal
$208,000
manager
$205,000
director
$256,825
vp
$300,000

Top-Paying Companies

By median Software Engineering salary

Netflix
$473,000
Anthropic
$362,500
HubSpot
$346,050
Lambda
$334,000
Perplexity
$312,500
xAI
$310,000
OpenAI
$307,500
Veeam
$294,650
Roku
$287,000
Snap
$286,000

Top Locations by Salary

Median salary by location

Panamá
$503,500
Los Gatos
$473,000
San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
$334,000
London
$310,000
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
$263,500
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote (U.S.)
$263,500
Remote - US: Select locations
$262,800
Round Rock
$261,000

Compensation Distribution

Sampled from 5,000 of 13,224 Software Engineering postings with salary data

<$75k
31
$75k–$100k
99
$100k–$150k
935
$150k–$200k
2,600
$200k–$300k
1,232
$300k+
103

Software Engineering Jobs with Salary

Manager, Mid Market Sales EMEA
manager Engineering Manager · Abnormal Security · Remote (Germany)
$50k – $100k
Senior Engineer, Enterprise Platforms
principal Principal Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
LLMs API Development OAuth
$142k – $204k
Senior Manager, Customer Trust
senior Technical Lead · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
ServiceNow Security Compliance
$176k – $253k
Senior Software Engineer, Adaptive Classification Team
senior Software Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Python React Django
$180k – $259k
Senior Software Engineer - App Foundations
senior Software Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Python Go Django
$180k – $259k
Senior Software Engineer - Product Engineering (Identity Security)
senior Software Engineer · Abnormal Security · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | CA (Hybrid) | United States (Hybrid)
Python AWS Kafka
$180k – $259k
Software Engineer 1, Dev Accelerator
mid Software Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Python gRPC Git
$122k – $176k
Software Engineer II, Messaging Security Products
mid Software Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Python JavaScript TypeScript
$149k – $215k
Software Engineer II - Model Platform
mid Platform Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Python Go Django
$149k – $215k
Technical Program Manager
mid Technical Program Manager · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
SQL Jira Agile
$111k – $160k
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Other Role Family Salaries

Machine Learning $206,825Product $199,750Design $193,000Legal $181,050Security $180,850Data Engineering $172,000Marketing $163,950Sales $157,325People $149,850Operations $142,550Services $142,350Finance $135,700
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