Data Engineering Salaries
The average salary for Data Engineering jobs is $194.2k – $306.0k per year across 48 jobs. Pay ranges from $169.9k – $271.0k for Mid Level roles to $197.6k – $315.7k at the Senior level.
Median salary
$231.3k
Based on 48 jobs · 11% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$164k
Average
$250.1k
75th percentile
$386.5k
Data Engineering salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Level | $169.9k – $271.0k | 16 | +13% |
| Senior | $197.6k – $315.7k | 30 | +7% |
Top companies for Data Engineering salaries
8 companies hiring for Data Engineering roles, ranked by average salary.
xAI
Avg. $180k – $440k · 6 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $192k – $321.0k · 6 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $244.4k – $342k · 5 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $162k – $247.4k · 5 jobs
Scale
Avg. $170.5k – $261.9k · 4 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $164.3k – $241k · 4 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $230.2k – $291.7k · 3 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $210k – $385k · 3 jobs
Data Engineering salaries by location
Average Data Engineering salaries across 6 locations.
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
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Data Engineering 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.