IT salary guides, technology compensation benchmarks, and pay trend analysis — helping employers set competitive offers and helping IT professionals understand their market value across roles, experience levels, and US metro areas.
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Splunk engineers earn $99,000 to $209,000 in 2026, with SIEM-focused Splunk Security Engineers averaging $152,773 and general infrastructure-facing roles closer to $147,524. The title on the req decides which number you’re budgeting for, and a lot of companies pick the wrong one before the posting ever goes live. A … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Embedded software engineers earn $125,000 to $150,000 at mid-level and $155,000 to $205,000 at senior in 2026, base only. Published US averages for the title run from $91,755 to $174,754. That $83,000 gap between two averages is the reason bands get approved that nobody accepts. Four different … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Automation engineer salaries in 2026 run roughly $72,000 to $162,000 depending on platform depth, industry, and hours, with published US averages clustering between $88,000 and $123,000. The spread is not noise. It is eight published figures measuring at least three different jobs, and not one of them … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 Agile coaches in the United States earn $96,500 to $198,500 in 2026, and scope sets the band far more than years of experience do. Team-level coaches cluster near $110,000. Enterprise transformation coaches clear $200,000. The title by itself tells you almost nothing about the number you should … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Integration engineers earn $78,873 to $139,132 in base pay across four experience levels in 2026, a $60,259 ladder. A req with no level on it prices at $80,395, which is the bottom rung, and that omission kills more of these searches than the budget does. A client … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 EDI analysts earn $68,000 to $105,000 on average in 2026 depending on which tracker you read, and the word you put in the job title moves pay more than the years of experience behind it. Developer-titled EDI roles clear $131,000 on Glassdoor. Analyst-titled roles doing the same … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Workday HCM consultants earn $104,000 to $154,000 on average in 2026 depending on which tracker you read, and the module they own moves pay further than seniority does. Payroll and Advanced Compensation specialists clear $170,000. In July 2025 Workday did something it had declined to do for … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 AI engineer contract rates in 2026 run $125 to $240 an hour as an agency bill rate for mid-to-senior US talent, with the contractor earning $85 to $160 of that. Scarce production specialists clear $300. The number your vendor quotes depends less on seniority than on which … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 AWS solutions architects average $145,725 to $176,595 in 2026 depending on which aggregator you trust, while architects employed by AWS itself clear a $262,000 median in total compensation. Both figures are accurate. They describe two different jobs wearing the same title. Last spring I had two AWS … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 ERP consultants bill $85 to $325 an hour in 2026 across NetSuite, SAP, and Dynamics 365, and the platform explains less of that spread than the engagement model and how much validation the project actually requires. A generalist quoting $95 an hour and a validation specialist quoting … Read more
