September 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

$122K

Median

$169K

75th pct

$214K

Gross (pre-tax) annual pay, USD-equivalent, across 12,541 live remote listings with disclosed salary

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 · 564 roles
Developer Relations$184K · 82 roles
Mobile (iOS / Android)$180K · 81 roles
Product Management$180K · 1,495 roles
Fullstack$176K · 1,358 roles
Security$170K · 839 roles
Solutions / Sales Eng$170K · 1,342 roles
DevOps / SRE / Platform$164K · 1,479 roles
Data Science / Analytics$162K · 733 roles
Backend$161K · 609 roles
Product Design (UX / UI)$160K · 496 roles
Data Engineering$149K · 434 roles
Frontend$144K · 199 roles
Machine Learning / AI$141K · 2,078 roles
Brand / Visual Design$130K · 65 roles
Technical Writer$123K · 45 roles
QA / Test$114K · 271 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.
  • All figures are gross (pre-tax) — the salary advertised on the listing, before income tax and deductions. Each 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 (September 2026). Retrieved from https://sleephire.dev/salary-report
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