Gregg Flecke
IT Director Salary Guide for 2026 IT director salary in the United States sits between $131,000 and $205,000 in base pay, depending on which database you pull from, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics pinning the median at $171,200 for the broader “Computer and Information Systems Managers” occupational category as of its May 2024 survey. … Read more
AI/ML Talent Map 2026: Where AI Engineers Are and What They Cost Thirty-five percent of all AI engineers in the United States work within a 40-mile radius of San Jose. Another 23% are in Seattle. That leaves roughly 42% of the country’s AI workforce scattered across every other metro area combined. If you’re hiring for … Read more
The 30-Day Talent Window: Why Smart Companies Are Hiring Right Now I’ve been placing IT and engineering talent in Southern California for a while now. Long enough to know what a normal hiring market looks like. This isn’t one. More than 55,900 tech workers have lost their jobs in 2026. We’re barely into Q1. At … Read more
Hire a Site Reliability Engineer: Skills, Salary & What to Look For A site reliability engineer keeps production systems running, automates away the repetitive operational work that burns out your infrastructure team, and builds the monitoring and alerting that tells you something is broken before your customers do. Pay varies a lot by source, but … Read more
How to Hire a Project Manager: Complete Guide for Employers A project manager is the person who keeps a cross-functional initiative from quietly falling apart. They own the timeline, the budget, the stakeholder communication, and the uncomfortable conversations when scope starts creeping. Hiring the right one can compress a 14-month product launch into nine months … Read more
Product Manager Salary Guide 2026 Product managers in the United States earn between $115,000 and $193,000 in base salary as of 2026, with a national average landing around $150,000 depending on who’s counting and how they define the role. Total compensation at Big Tech companies regularly clears $300,000 once you factor in equity and bonuses. … Read more
SOC Analyst Career Path & Salary Guide A SOC analyst monitors an organization’s networks and systems for security threats, triaging alerts across SIEM platforms, investigating incidents, and escalating confirmed breaches. Entry-level Tier 1 analysts earn $57,000 to $80,000, while senior Tier 3 threat hunters pull $90,000 to $140,000 or more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics … Read more
Information Security Analyst: Complete Career Guide Last month we placed an information security analyst at a healthcare company in Irvine. Took three weeks from intake call to signed offer. The one before that took four months. Same title. Same salary range. Completely different outcome, and the difference had nothing to do with the candidate market. … Read more
Tech professionals who negotiate earn $24,479 more annually on average — an 18.83% boost vs. accepting the first offer. Over 5 years on a $130K base, that gap exceeds $150,000 in compounded earnings. The four highest-leverage moves: anchor first with market data, counter on total comp (not base only), get a written offer before negotiating, … Read more
MLOps engineer salaries in 2026 range from $90,000 to $257,000+, with the wide spread reflecting three distinct sub-roles wearing the same title: ML platform engineers, ML infrastructure engineers, and applied MLOps engineers. Senior MLOps engineers at FAANG and frontier AI labs reach $300K+ in total compensation. Source: KORE1 placements + Glassdoor + ZipRecruiter + Salary.com … Read more
