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 Mike Carter Principal software engineers in the United States earn $200,000 to $300,000 base in 2026, with total compensation ranging from about $235,000 at mid-market employers to roughly $630,000 at Amazon and past $1 million at Meta and Google. No other title on the engineering ladder spreads that wide. The word “principal” sits on … Read more
Pricing the rest of the product ladder? The rung below this seat is in our group product manager salary guide, and the seat above it is the VP product salary guide for 2026. This page is about the director number, and why the hiring manager and finance keep walking in with two of them. Director … Read more
The phrase “data architect” sits on a job board next to three other titles that pay nothing like it. Before you put a number on a req, here is what the role actually earns in 2026, and why the public salary sites will hand you a figure that is off by forty grand in either … 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
Pricing the rest of the product ladder? The rungs below this seat live in our group product manager salary guide and senior product manager salary guide. The seat above it is the chief product officer salary guide for 2026. VP Product Salary Guide 2026 By Robert Ardell A vice president of product in the United … Read more
Staff Engineer Salary Guide 2026 By Tom Kenaley Staff engineers in the United States earn $190,000 to $260,000 base in 2026, with total compensation reaching $350,000 to $700,000 at large technology employers once equity and bonus stack on top. It is the first rung where pay stops tracking how fast you write code and starts … Read more
A group product manager is two jobs wearing one title. The offer letter almost always pays for one of them. Group product managers in the United States earn $190,000 to $285,000 base in 2026, with total compensation reaching $310,000 to $560,000 once bonus and equity stack on top at public technology employers. At Google and … Read more
Ask five companies what an enterprise architect should earn. You will get five numbers, two job descriptions, and an argument. Enterprise architects in the United States earn $130,000 to $185,000 in base salary in 2026, with senior and principal roles reaching $235,000 to $370,000 in total compensation once bonus and equity are counted. The base … Read more
Big data engineer salaries run $131K to $151K nationally in 2026, with senior and staff roles past $200K. Pay broken down by experience, city, skill, and industry.
