Remote Salary Report, November 2026

November 13, 2026

On 13 November 2026, the median midpoint of published salary ranges on 129 high-paying remote jobs was $238,500 a year. The median range ran from $203,200 to $278,250. Every job in this report is fully remote and includes an employer-published annual salary in US dollars.

Short facts you can quote

  • On 13 November 2026, the median midpoint of published salary ranges on 129 high-paying remote jobs was $238,500 a year.
  • The median published range ran from $203,200 to $278,250 a year.
  • 69 of those 129 jobs have a published minimum of $200,000 or more.
  • 86 of the 129 jobs are open only to people living in the United States.
  • Remote director jobs had a median midpoint of $290,534 a year (24 jobs).
  • Remote staff engineer jobs had a median midpoint of $260,975 a year (28 jobs).
  • The highest published range in the snapshot is VP, Product Management at LaunchDarkly, at $360,400 to $583,000 a year.

How to read these numbers

Each job lists a minimum and a maximum. The midpoint is the average of those two numbers. A median is the middle value when the list is sorted. These figures are the cash salary ranges as published by the employer. We cannot see whether equity, bonus, or location bands are included, except where the employer said so in the post. An offer can land anywhere in the range.

Pay by salary minimum

Most roles in this snapshot start at $150,000 or more. 111 of 129 jobs have a published minimum of at least $150,000, and 69 start at $200,000 or more. The median midpoint in the $200,000-and-up group is $276,298 a year. A full list of those roles is in Remote jobs that pay $200k+.

  • $200,000 or more — Jobs: 69 · Median midpoint: $276,298
  • $150,000 to $199,999 — Jobs: 42 · Median midpoint: $214,750
  • $120,000 to $149,999 — Jobs: 16 · Median midpoint: $178,200
  • Under $120,000 (senior titles only) — Jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $135,700

Pay by level

Level comes from the job title, not from a company leveling framework. We use the first matching word in this order: VP or Head, Director, Principal, Staff, Manager, Lead, Senior. "Chief of Staff Director" is counted as Director. "Lead Product Manager" is counted as Manager. Titles with no level word (3 jobs) are in Other.

  • VP/Head — Jobs: 6 · Median minimum: $241,310 · Median maximum: $329,650 · Median midpoint: $285,680
  • Director — Jobs: 24 · Median minimum: $238,800 · Median maximum: $343,550 · Median midpoint: $290,534
  • Principal — Jobs: 14 · Median minimum: $217,600 · Median maximum: $310,500 · Median midpoint: $256,750
  • Staff — Jobs: 40 · Median minimum: $210,301 · Median maximum: $279,500 · Median midpoint: $242,250
  • Lead — Jobs: 3 · Median minimum: $191,500 · Median maximum: $287,300 · Median midpoint: $239,400
  • Manager — Jobs: 20 · Median minimum: $174,500 · Median maximum: $244,750 · Median midpoint: $209,825
  • Senior — Jobs: 19 · Median minimum: $155,000 · Median maximum: $218,400 · Median midpoint: $192,500
  • Other — Jobs: 3 · Median minimum: $175,000 · Median maximum: $250,000 · Median midpoint: $207,500

Director roles are listed in Remote director jobs. Staff, senior staff, and staff-level engineering roles are listed in Remote staff engineer jobs.

Pay by category

Category names below follow the live board, with slightly clearer labels for a few groups. Software Engineering is the largest group, at 63 jobs, with a median midpoint of $242,250. Rows marked with a star have four jobs or fewer, so a single listing can move the median a lot.

  • Software Engineering — Jobs: 63 · Median minimum: $200,200 · Median maximum: $279,000 · Median midpoint: $242,250
  • Product & Project Management — Jobs: 25 · Median minimum: $200,000 · Median maximum: $268,000 · Median midpoint: $229,462
  • Data & Machine Learning — Jobs: 12 · Median minimum: $213,084 · Median maximum: $263,362 · Median midpoint: $237,525
  • Marketing — Jobs: 9 · Median minimum: $190,000 · Median maximum: $245,500 · Median midpoint: $213,500
  • Design — Jobs: 7 · Median minimum: $190,000 · Median maximum: $287,300 · Median midpoint: $230,000
  • Sales * — Jobs: 4 · Median minimum: $247,100 · Median maximum: $369,250 · Median midpoint: $301,425
  • Finance * — Jobs: 4 · Median minimum: $241,310 · Median maximum: $293,600 · Median midpoint: $267,455
  • Consulting-Strategy * — Jobs: 2 · Median minimum: $229,464 · Median maximum: $407,603 · Median midpoint: $318,534
  • Customer Service-Support * — Jobs: 2 · Median minimum: $169,000 · Median maximum: $234,000 · Median midpoint: $201,500
  • IT-Support * — Jobs: 1 · Median minimum: $300,000 · Median maximum: $360,000 · Median midpoint: $330,000

Where you can live

We used the location stated on each job. 86 jobs are United States only. 20 jobs list more than one country or a wider region. 23 jobs did not state a country in our data; treat those as "check the post" rather than as worldwide. The apply-from-anywhere label that sometimes appears in structured data on the site is not reliable, so we did not use it.

  • United States only — Jobs: 86 · Notes: See each job for the exact wording (United States, US, or Remote United States).
  • More than one country or region — Jobs: 20 · Notes: Includes United States or Canada, Americas, Worldwide, and other listed country sets.
  • Not listed in our data — Jobs: 23 · Notes: The country was missing from the job record. Check the job post before you apply.

Companies with more than one live job

60 employers have at least one job in this snapshot. The list below covers companies with two or more live jobs, ranked by the median midpoint of their published ranges. Reddit has the highest median among companies with several roles, at $339,050 (7 jobs). LaunchDarkly has the single highest maximum, at $583,000.

  • Reddit — Live jobs: 7 · Median midpoint: $339,050 · Highest maximum: $443,800
  • LaunchDarkly — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $331,075 · Highest maximum: $583,000
  • Pinterest — Live jobs: 3 · Median midpoint: $319,023 · Highest maximum: $499,541
  • Dropbox — Live jobs: 3 · Median midpoint: $296,450 · Highest maximum: $385,200
  • GitLab — Live jobs: 6 · Median midpoint: $280,950 · Highest maximum: $409,500
  • Affirm — Live jobs: 7 · Median midpoint: $280,500 · Highest maximum: $360,000
  • Ashby — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $277,500 · Highest maximum: $323,000
  • Coinbase — Live jobs: 5 · Median midpoint: $274,910 · Highest maximum: $309,000
  • Samsara — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $271,950 · Highest maximum: $357,500
  • Databricks — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $271,262 · Highest maximum: $371,700
  • Discord — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $271,250 · Highest maximum: $340,000
  • Mercury — Live jobs: 3 · Median midpoint: $268,900 · Highest maximum: $362,100
  • Toast — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $261,000 · Highest maximum: $397,000
  • Prefect — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $247,500 · Highest maximum: $309,000
  • Smartsheet — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $246,250 · Highest maximum: $290,000
  • Fivetran — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $245,270 · Highest maximum: $283,322
  • Zocdoc — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $241,250 · Highest maximum: $300,000
  • Instacart — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $238,875 · Highest maximum: $307,000
  • Airbnb — Live jobs: 5 · Median midpoint: $238,500 · Highest maximum: $310,000
  • Vanta — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $234,500 · Highest maximum: $306,000
  • LiveKit — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $233,750 · Highest maximum: $300,000
  • Twilio — Live jobs: 5 · Median midpoint: $232,470 · Highest maximum: $405,600
  • Honeycomb — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $230,500 · Highest maximum: $265,000
  • Grafana Labs — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $229,462 · Highest maximum: $312,000
  • Chainguard — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $221,250 · Highest maximum: $258,000
  • Temporal — Live jobs: 2 · Median midpoint: $204,912 · Highest maximum: $278,250
  • Tailscale — Live jobs: 4 · Median midpoint: $197,250 · Highest maximum: $300,000
  • ClickHouse — Live jobs: 3 · Median midpoint: $196,500 · Highest maximum: $270,000
  • Customer.io — Live jobs: 3 · Median midpoint: $162,100 · Highest maximum: $240,000

All 129 jobs

Sorted by midpoint, highest first. Each link is the canonical job URL from the public sitemap.

Method

This report uses a snapshot of live jobs on iloveremote.io dated 13 November 2026. The export contained 130 jobs. We counted 129.

  • We only counted jobs that meet the board rules: fully remote, and a published annual USD salary, with a minimum of about $120,000 or a clearly senior title.
  • We excluded one job that did not meet those rules: Digital Media Manager at Walker Advertising, $95,000 to $125,000, not a senior title. That listing was already removed from the live site on 13 November 2026 (its old URL now redirects to the homepage).
  • We kept two senior jobs whose minimum is under $120,000, because the titles are clearly senior and the range goes above $120,000: Senior Customer Success Operations Manager at GitLab ($104,800 to $176,400) and Senior Customer Support Operations Readiness Program Manager at Mercury ($109,500 to $152,100).
  • The midpoint of a job is (minimum + maximum) / 2. Medians are the median of those values (or of the minima or maxima, where the list says so).
  • Level is inferred from the job title with the keyword order described above. It is not the employer's official level.
  • Location is the location on the job record. "Not listed" means that field was empty. We did not guess a country.
  • All 129 jobs are marked remote-only, with a yearly salary in USD. We did not convert other currencies, because none were present.
  • We checked the public job sitemap on 13 November 2026 (129 canonical URLs). The excluded Walker job was in the export but not in the sitemap. We verified a sample of canonical URLs with a direct request; each returned HTTP 200 and a matching canonical tag.
  • These numbers will change as jobs are added or expire. This is not a survey of all remote work, only of the jobs on this board on that date.

FAQ

Are these salaries estimates?

No. Every figure in this report comes from a salary range published by the employer. If a job has no published range, it is not on the board and not in this report.

Why is the typical number a midpoint, not a minimum?

A range has two ends. The midpoint is a simple way to compare jobs with different spreads. The tables also show median minima and maxima, and each job lists its full range.

Can I apply from outside the United States?

Sometimes. 86 of the 129 jobs are United States only. 20 list more than one country or region. 23 do not state a country in our data. Read the job post before you apply. There is more detail in our FAQ.

Do you include equity or bonus?

Only if the employer put those amounts in the published salary range. Most posts we see are a cash salary range. We do not add equity estimates of our own.

How often will this report be updated?

We plan to publish a new report each month, with a fresh snapshot. This edition is for November 2026.

A shorter, weekly view of open roles is on the high-paying remote jobs page. You can also get new jobs by email.

Updated on 2026-11-13.

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