Rust Salaries
The average salary for Rust jobs is $210.8k – $355.5k per year across 151 jobs. Pay ranges from $137.7k – $191.8k for Entry Level roles to $210.2k – $347.9k at the Senior level.
Median salary
$282.5k
Based on 151 jobs · 25% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$180k
Average
$283.1k
75th percentile
$440k
Rust salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $137.7k – $191.8k | 3 | +31% |
| Mid Level | $185.6k – $363.1k | 39 | +41% |
| Senior | $210.2k – $347.9k | 99 | +16% |
Top companies for Rust salaries
10 companies hiring for Rust roles, ranked by average salary.
xAI
Avg. $180.6k – $421.2k · 42 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $188.7k – $231.2k · 18 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $262.2k – $387.4k · 16 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $311.1k – $434.6k · 16 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $165.0k – $289.6k · 12 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $238.9k – $385k · 9 jobs
Thinking Machines Lab
Avg. $331.3k – $475k · 8 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $178.2k – $257.8k · 6 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $149.5k – $229.5k · 5 jobs
Modal
Avg. $175k – $290k · 4 jobs
Rust salaries by location
Average Rust salaries across 6 locations.
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.0k – $313.4k · 513 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.7k – $307.6k · 209 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $183.5k – $286.1k · 203 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $201.0k – $315.7k · 184 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.3k – $344.8k · 161 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.8k – $312.1k · 160 jobs
Related skills
Rust 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.