What remote jobs actually pay, by role
Every figure on this page is a median computed from live listings on this board that state a salary range in US dollars. Nothing is a survey estimate and nothing is converted between currencies. Where too few listings state a range, the role says so rather than showing a number.
What the board pays
- Median across every priced listing: USD 155,000
- Middle half of the market: USD 110,600 to USD 201,462
- One listing in ten pays under USD 77,500, one in ten over USD 256,495
- 3,342 of 29,745 live listings publish a range, which is 11%. The rest say nothing about pay and are not counted.
What the ladder pays
Seniority read from the job title, the only place these listings state it.
- Junior or associate: USD 115,100, from 102 listings
- No level in the title: USD 129,548, from 1,590 listings
- Senior and above: USD 180,000, from 1,650 listings
Which fields pay most
- AI & ML: USD 218,375 (66 listings)
- Product: USD 187,350 (150 listings)
- Development: USD 182,013 (1,042 listings)
- Legal: USD 178,500 (87 listings)
- Security: USD 168,000 (43 listings)
- Data Science: USD 158,167 (164 listings)
- Marketing: USD 145,000 (161 listings)
- Finance: USD 142,649 (123 listings)
- Consulting: USD 137,750 (66 listings)
- Healthcare: USD 137,500 (202 listings)
- Design: USD 135,000 (55 listings)
- Project Mgmt: USD 130,000 (89 listings)
Against the national figures
Our median describes remote listings that choose to publish a range. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measures all US employment in an occupation, remote or not. Both are shown so the difference is visible rather than implied.
- Software Engineer: national median USD 135,980 for Software Developers
- Data Scientist: national median USD 120,230 for Data Scientists
- Data Engineer: national median USD 139,500 for Database Architects (closest match)
- DevOps Engineer: national median USD 99,130 for Network and Computer Systems Administrators (closest match)
- Security Engineer: national median USD 129,180 for Information Security Analysts
- Systems Engineer: national median USD 105,850 for Computer Systems Analysts (closest match)
- Solutions Architect: national median USD 134,050 for Computer Network Architects (closest match)
- Machine Learning Engineer: national median USD 140,300 for Computer and Information Research Scientists (closest match)
- Engineering Manager: national median USD 175,140 for Computer and Information Systems Managers (closest match)
- Product Designer: national median USD 104,000 for Web and Digital Interface Designers (closest match)
- Project Manager: national median USD 102,320 for Project Management Specialists
- Program Manager: national median USD 102,320 for Project Management Specialists (closest match)
- Operations Manager: national median USD 105,770 for General and Operations Managers
- Operations Specialist: national median USD 83,050 for Business Operations Specialists, All Other (closest match)
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025 release, national, all industries, annual median wage. Retrieved 2026-10-14 from the BLS public data API. A job title is not an SOC occupation: approximate matches are labelled and roles with no defensible occupation carry no figure.
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