SQL Salaries
The average salary for SQL jobs is $180.5k – $253.3k per year across 195 jobs. Pay ranges from $63.4k – $97.5k for Entry Level roles to $115k – $165k at the Associate level.
Median salary
$207.5k
Based on 195 jobs · 4% less than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$140k
Average
$216.9k
75th percentile
$312.8k
SQL salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $63.4k – $97.5k | 7 | -36% |
| Mid Level | $154.9k – $221.3k | 51 | -3% |
| Senior | $191.4k – $270.3k | 120 | -4% |
| Director | $236.9k – $296.4k | 11 | -3% |
| Associate | $115k – $165k | 4 | 0% |
Top companies for SQL salaries
10 companies hiring for SQL roles, ranked by average salary.
Anthropic
Avg. $223.7k – $286.6k · 36 jobs
Scale
Avg. $179.6k – $225.7k · 26 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $252.4k – $341.7k · 22 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $162.7k – $298.6k · 15 jobs
EliseAI
Avg. $108.2k – $160.1k · 15 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $128k – $193.6k · 12 jobs
xAI
Avg. $140.8k – $261.1k · 9 jobs
Harvey
Avg. $148.3k – $190.6k · 6 jobs
Decagon
Avg. $205k – $263k · 5 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $186k – $323k · 5 jobs
SQL salaries by location
Average SQL salaries across 10 locations.
San Francisco
Avg. $212.4k – $277.3k · 94 jobs
New York City
Avg. $148.3k – $207.8k · 26 jobs
Santa Clara
Avg. $163.4k – $299.4k · 14 jobs
Livingston
Avg. $139.1k – $213k · 8 jobs
Palo Alto
Avg. $137.4k – $247.1k · 7 jobs
Sunnyvale
Avg. $142.8k – $196.3k · 6 jobs
London
Avg. $197.6k – $322.8k · 4 jobs
Foster City
Avg. $173.8k – $290k · 4 jobs
Boston
Avg. $180k – $242.5k · 4 jobs
Bellevue
Avg. $124k – $157.7k · 3 jobs
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
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SQL 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.