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Rocket Lab salaries

What Rocket Lab 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.

$152k median · $121k to $177k middle half · 283 job posts with a salary

Updated Nov 5, 2026

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Salary by role at Rocket Lab

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 Rocket Lab by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering177$152k$126k to $177k
Operations28$161k$147k to $181k
Sales9$363k$268k to $398k
Security7$133k$126k to $171k
HR7$93k$83k to $111k

Salary by AI level at Rocket Lab

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

Published salary at Rocket Lab by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●6$219k$180k to $259k
Little AI ●○○○275$151k$120k to $177k

Salary by country at Rocket Lab

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

Published salary at Rocket Lab by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States283$152k$121k to $177k

Other currencies and hourly pay

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

  • CAD: 5 job posts, median CAD 60k, CAD 52k to CAD 60k a year.
  • Hourly in USD: 104 job posts, median $28/hr.

Rocket Lab job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 392. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 392 job posts at Rocket Lab 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 5, 2026.

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Rocket Lab salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Rocket Lab pay?

Rocket Lab job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $152k. The middle half of those posts range from $121k to $177k. That is 283 job posts, as of Nov 5, 2026.

Which roles at Rocket Lab list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Sales has the highest median at $363k, from 9 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Rocket Lab 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 Rocket Lab: Builds AI $219k, Little AI $151k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Rocket Lab salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Rocket Lab 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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