Gregg Flecke
By Gregg Flecke To hire a product designer in 2026, decide first whether you need a digital or an industrial one, budget about $100,000 to $185,000 base for mid to senior U.S. talent, and screen the portfolio for shipped outcomes, not pretty screens. The rest of this guide is the part that sentence skips. Which … Read more
By Gregg Flecke Hiring a data scientist in 2026 costs a US employer roughly $190,000 to $370,000 in the first year, once you stack fully loaded pay, recruiting fees, the cost of the open seat, and onboarding. Base salary is the line everyone approves. It is rarely more than 55 to 60 percent of the … Read more
By Gregg Flecke To hire a SOC analyst in 2026, decide your coverage model first, pick the tier you actually need, and budget about $65,000 to $130,000 base, knowing that 24/7 coverage takes a team of ten to twelve, not one hire. The rest of this guide is about the parts that sentence skips. Which … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Staff software engineers in the United States earn $195,000 to $265,000 base in 2026 at most employers, and up to $320,000 at Big Tech and the AI labs, with total compensation reaching $700,000 or more. That spread is not noise. It is one title doing very … Read more
A data team is structured around four jobs done in order: move the data, model it, analyze it, and govern it, with a single leader owning all four. Most orgs start with one data engineer and add specialists only as the work earns them. That sentence took me fifteen years on a recruiting desk to … Read more
Hiring an Android developer in 2026 runs about $120K to $210K base for mid-to-senior talent, with most roles filling in three to six weeks. Screen for apps that have survived real devices in the wild, not Kotlin sitting on a résumé. That one shift in what you look for separates a search that closes from … Read more
Reading this to set a budget, not to negotiate your own package? Our CISO staffing desk runs these executive searches end to end, with the broader cybersecurity staffing team behind it. CISO Salary Guide 2026 By Gregg Flecke A CISO in the United States earns $250,000 to $700,000 in total compensation in 2026, built from … Read more
Hiring instead of getting hired? Pair this with our guide on how to hire an iOS developer, and if you would rather hand the search off, our iOS developer staffing desk runs these every week. iOS Developer Salary Guide 2026 By Gregg Flecke iOS developers in the United States earn $95,000 to $175,000 in base … Read more
Hiring an iOS developer in 2026 runs $120K to $230K base for mid-to-senior talent, with most roles filling in three to six weeks. Screen for apps actually shipped to the App Store, not Swift listed on a resume. That one habit separates the searches that close from the ones that drag. I have run iOS … Read more
Hire a contractor when the work is a defined project, the scope is still fuzzy, or you need someone shipping in days. Hire full-time when you need ongoing model ownership and institutional knowledge. When you genuinely can’t tell, contract-to-hire settles it. That’s the version that fits on a sticky note. The one that actually saves … Read more
