June 2026 edition

The Remote Engineering Salary Report

Real remote salaries computed from live company job listings — not a survey, not self-reported. Refreshed daily as new roles are posted.

55,000 roles live

25th pct

$125K

Median

$174K

75th pct

$220K

Across 8,113 live remote listings with disclosed pay

Highest-paid role

Engineering Management

$230K

Role pay spread

2.0×

Engineering Management vs QA / Test

Roles analysed

19

distinct functions

Median salary by role

Ranked highest to lowest. Bars scaled to the top median.

Engineering Management$230K · 376 roles
Product Management$189K · 889 roles
Developer Relations$187K · 68 roles
Fullstack$183K · 755 roles
Security$177K · 477 roles
Solutions / Sales Eng$175K · 905 roles
Mobile (iOS / Android)$172K · 62 roles
DevOps / SRE / Platform$170K · 891 roles
Backend$168K · 417 roles
Data Science / Analytics$166K · 481 roles
Product Design (UX / UI)$163K · 379 roles
Brand / Visual Design$150K · 37 roles
Frontend$149K · 124 roles
Data Engineering$140K · 268 roles
Machine Learning / AI$135K · 1,655 roles
Technical Writer$128K · 28 roles
QA / Test$118K · 129 roles

Methodology

  • Figures come from live job listings in the SleepHire index that disclose a salary range — scraped from company career pages, not self-reported surveys.
  • Each salary is normalised to an annualised USD equivalent using the midpoint of the published range; percentiles use continuous interpolation.
  • Only fully-remote roles are counted. A role appears once duplicates across boards are removed.
  • The data refreshes daily; filled or expired roles drop out automatically, so the numbers track the current market.
  • Sample bias: roles that disclose pay skew toward companies with transparent comp and US/EU-pegged bands, so medians may run higher than the true global market.

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SleepHire Remote Engineering Salary Report (June 2026). Retrieved from https://sleephire.dev/salary-report
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