AWS Salaries
The average salary for AWS jobs is $201.7k – $293.9k per year across 226 jobs. Pay ranges from $174.6k – $269.2k for Mid Level roles to $258.6k – $428.5k at the Director level.
Median salary
$237.5k
Based on 226 jobs · 10% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$162.8k
Average
$247.8k
75th percentile
$360k
AWS salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Level | $174.6k – $269.2k | 49 | +13% |
| Senior | $207.1k – $297.4k | 170 | +5% |
| Director | $258.6k – $428.5k | 3 | +25% |
Top companies for AWS salaries
10 companies hiring for AWS roles, ranked by average salary.
Scale
Avg. $207.3k – $278.0k · 26 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $292.0k – $370.0k · 26 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $183.3k – $226.2k · 23 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $181.8k – $312.5k · 20 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $141.4k – $219.8k · 20 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $208.8k – $372.9k · 17 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $249.4k – $363.3k · 11 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $137.1k – $232.9k · 10 jobs
xAI
Avg. $184.4k – $415.6k · 9 jobs
EliseAI
Avg. $237.8k – $310k · 9 jobs
AWS salaries by location
Average AWS salaries across 8 locations.
San Francisco
Avg. $216.2k – $299.8k · 104 jobs
New York City
Avg. $214.8k – $284.6k · 20 jobs
Livingston
Avg. $149.9k – $236.4k · 16 jobs
Santa Clara
Avg. $196.6k – $341.3k · 14 jobs
Sunnyvale
Avg. $153k – $235k · 11 jobs
Palo Alto
Avg. $185.7k – $408.6k · 7 jobs
Foster City
Avg. $204.7k – $304.2k · 6 jobs
London
Avg. $254.2k – $400.0k · 4 jobs
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.3k – $313.3k · 510 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $182.7k – $283.5k · 201 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.5k – $308.9k · 201 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $202.2k – $316.4k · 187 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.1k – $344.9k · 162 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.5k – $311.4k · 161 jobs
Related skills
AWS salary FAQs
All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.