Software Engineering Salaries
The average Software Engineering salary is $196.3k – $313.3k per year across 510 jobs. Pay ranges from $125.8k – $187.8k for Entry Level roles to $239.2k – $400.4k at the Director level.
Average salary range
$196.3k – $313.3k
Based on 510 jobs · 13% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$152k
Average
$254.8k
75th percentile
$385k
Software Engineering salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $125.8k – $187.8k | 15 | +26% |
| Mid Level | $167.4k – $292.6k | 121 | +18% |
| Senior | $203.0k – $318.9k | 349 | +9% |
| Director | $239.2k – $400.4k | 5 | +16% |
Top companies for Software Engineering salaries
10 companies hiring for Software Engineering roles, ranked by average salary.
NVIDIA
Avg. $165.1k – $293.1k · 87 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $258.5k – $389.9k · 64 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $147.8k – $240.6k · 52 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $152.0k – $229.9k · 34 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $314.2k – $424.8k · 32 jobs
xAI
Avg. $177.5k – $428.8k · 24 jobs
Scale
Avg. $202.5k – $279.5k · 20 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $187.0k – $231.5k · 18 jobs
Harvey
Avg. $226.3k – $292.6k · 18 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $230.6k – $379.7k · 16 jobs
Software Engineering salaries by location
Average Software Engineering salaries across 14 locations.
San Francisco
Avg. $227.4k – $329.8k · 212 jobs
Santa Clara
Avg. $171.1k – $315.8k · 78 jobs
Sunnyvale
Avg. $155.6k – $242.8k · 37 jobs
New York City
Avg. $239.7k – $337.5k · 32 jobs
Palo Alto
Avg. $177.1k – $427.1k · 21 jobs
Livingston
Avg. $145.2k – $221.5k · 19 jobs
Foster City
Avg. $199.6k – $296.6k · 16 jobs
Mountain View
Avg. $146.9k – $243.5k · 10 jobs
London
Avg. $252.2k – $395.0k · 7 jobs
Washington, D.C.
Avg. $144.6k – $269.2k · 6 jobs
Related skills
Top paying skills across 6 skills.
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Avg. $182.7k – $283.5k · 201 jobs
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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
AI Engineering
Avg. $201.5k – $311.3k · 134 jobs
Software 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.