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Cisco salaries

What Cisco publishes in its job posts: the median, the range, and how pay differs by role, AI level and country. Only salaries from live posts, nothing self-reported.

$208k median · $171k to $245k middle half · 463 job posts with a salary

Updated Nov 3, 2026

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Salary by role at Cisco

In USD a year. Range is the middle half of posts from 5 posts, and lowest to highest below that. A row appears from 3 posts.

Published salary at Cisco by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering211$206k$171k to $227k
Sales74$264k$240k to $309k
Product29$217k$203k to $240k
Operations22$166k$145k to $187k
Data11$266k$238k to $315k
Security11$170k$159k to $227k
Marketing10$197k$173k to $264k
Legal7$258k$210k to $272k

Salary by AI level at Cisco

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. In USD a year.

Published salary at Cisco by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●25$262k$231k to $307k
Works on AI ●●●○61$227k$187k to $240k
Uses AI ●●○○30$204k$167k to $239k
Little AI ●○○○347$206k$171k to $240k

Salary by country at Cisco

Posts published in USD, grouped by the country of the job.

Published salary at Cisco by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States439$208k$171k to $249k
Canada23$173k$149k to $195k

Other currencies and hourly pay

Shown apart. Amounts are never converted between currencies or between hourly and annual.

  • EUR: 18 job posts, median €55k, €49k to €72k a year.

Cisco job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 481. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 481 job posts at Cisco with a published salary, read from the live job posts themselves. Each post counts once, at the midpoint of its listed range. Hourly rates are shown apart from annual pay, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out. Currencies are never converted or mixed. No surveys, no self-reported figures. Updated Nov 3, 2026.

A page like this exists once a company has at least 3 live posts with a salary in the same currency. See the full method.

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Cisco salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Cisco pay?

Cisco job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $208k. The middle half of those posts range from $171k to $245k. That is 463 job posts, as of Nov 3, 2026.

Which roles at Cisco list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Data has the highest median at $266k, from 11 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Cisco change with how much AI the job involves?

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. Median published salaries by level at Cisco: Builds AI $262k, Works on AI $227k, Uses AI $204k, Little AI $206k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Cisco salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Cisco that list a salary, nothing else. Level takes the midpoint of each listed range, then reports the median and the middle half of posts once there are at least 3. Amounts are never converted between currencies, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out.

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