# Salary data, measured from live postings

Every number on this page and the pages it links to comes from 34,552 tracked postings at 416 tech companies. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=13,433 US postings with salary.

## Median salary by profession (USD / year)

Categories with at least 50 US postings carrying a salary get their own page.

| Profession | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Software Engineering](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/software-engineering) | 4,567 | $182,400–$261,000 |
| [Sales](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/sales) | 2,229 | $170,000–$235,000 |
| [Product](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/product) | 808 | $184,550–$260,100 |
| [Operations](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/operations) | 753 | $150,000–$205,485 |
| [Marketing](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/marketing) | 650 | $155,350–$215,000 |
| [Data](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/data) | 528 | $184,000–$260,050 |
| [Finance](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/finance) | 364 | $155,900–$210,500 |
| [Research](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/research) | 284 | $200,000–$328,300 |
| [Security](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/security) | 271 | $180,000–$258,000 |
| [Design](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/design) | 260 | $168,650–$230,000 |
| [Legal](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/legal) | 205 | $200,000–$264,000 |
| [Customer Support](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/customer-support) | 203 | $121,840–$166,750 |
| [HR](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/hr) | 198 | $142,380–$199,000 |
| [Healthcare](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/healthcare) | 50 | $220,000–$279,000 |

## Median salary by job title (USD / year)

Long-tail titles tracked by Level, matched in the posting headline.

| Job title | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Sales development representative](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/sales-development-representative) | 78 | $75,000–$90,000 |
| [Enterprise account executive](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/enterprise-account-executive) | 215 | $240,000–$300,000 |
| [Solutions engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/solutions-engineer) | 205 | $165,000–$216,562 |
| [Forward deployed engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/forward-deployed-engineer) | 221 | $182,000–$250,208 |
| [Software engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/software-engineer) | 1,929 | $184,500–$270,000 |
| [Account executive](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/account-executive) | 749 | $160,000–$210,000 |
| [Product manager](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/product-manager) | 586 | $185,600–$260,100 |
| [Senior software engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/senior-software-engineer) | 516 | $184,000–$242,000 |
| [Staff software engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/staff-software-engineer) | 366 | $217,000–$278,250 |
| [Engineering manager](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/engineering-manager) | 245 | $224,000–$303,000 |
| [Solutions architect](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/solutions-architect) | 242 | $180,000–$247,500 |
| [Security engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/security-engineer) | 189 | $185,000–$260,000 |
| [Technical program manager](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/technical-program-manager) | 182 | $175,000–$256,160 |
| [Product designer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/product-designer) | 143 | $174,000–$248,400 |
| [Data scientist](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/data-scientist) | 136 | $190,800–$260,000 |
| [Machine learning engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/machine-learning-engineer) | 133 | $197,300–$290,000 |
| [AI engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/ai-engineer) | 106 | $197,000–$269,300 |
| [Customer success manager](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/customer-success-manager) | 101 | $123,100–$175,000 |
| [Research engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/research-engineer) | 99 | $231,000–$400,000 |
| [Research scientist](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/research-scientist) | 93 | $192,000–$304,750 |
| [Data engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/data-engineer) | 71 | $180,000–$240,000 |
| [Site reliability engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/site-reliability-engineer) | 66 | $168,000–$250,000 |
| [Backend engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/backend-engineer) | 65 | $170,350–$235,200 |
| [Platform engineer](https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/platform-engineer) | 56 | $190,625–$270,875 |

Not enough US salary data yet for Field sales executive (n=0). No page is published for these until the sample is large enough to trust.

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. A page exists only from 50 such postings: below that, a single-digit sample would make the median swing with each ingestion cycle, so no page is published rather than show a number that would not hold up.

Sample: tech companies tracked by Level (416 employers, 34,552 live postings on the measured date). Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries