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 Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 NetSuite administrators in the U.S. make a median base of about $111,000 in 2026. The middle of the market runs roughly $85,000 to $140,000, and a certified admin holding together a multi-subsidiary OneWorld instance clears $150,000 without much argument. That median hides something specific, though, and it … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Workday consultants earn a median base near $115,000, with most offers landing between $95,000 and $165,000, and senior functional and integration specialists who have carried a live deployment clearing $175,000 and up. One title, several jobs that barely resemble each other. The module bends … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. product owners earn a median base near $115,000, with most offers landing between $95,000 and $155,000, and senior product owners who own a roadmap, stakeholder alignment, and a scaled-agile program clearing $160,000 and up. Two people put “Product Owner” at the top of a … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. penetration testers earn a median base near $130,000, with most offers landing between $95,000 and $180,000, and senior red-team operators who can prove real exploitation clearing $200,000 in total pay. One job title, and hiding under it a pay range that would make your … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Salesforce administrators earn a median base near $95,000, with most offers landing between $75,000 and $125,000, and senior admins who own security, automation, and an Agentforce rollout clearing $130,000 and up. One title. Under it, a job that runs from resetting passwords to steering … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Kubernetes engineers earn a median base near $140,000, with most offers landing between $115,000 and $195,000, and senior platform specialists who run production clusters clearing $230,000 and up in total pay. One title, and underneath it a pay gap wide enough to drive a … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Java developers earn a median base near $130,000, with most offers between $95,000 and $175,000, and senior engineers on trading floors or high-scale backends clearing $230,000 and up in total pay. That is a huge spread for one job title, and most of it … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A U.S. cloud architect earns $150,000 to $235,000 in base pay in 2026, with senior and multi-cloud specialists clearing $250,000 and total comp at big-tech employers running well past $400,000. That is a wide band, and the thing that moves it most is not on the resume … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 In 2026, U.S. Go (Golang) developers earn a median base near $140,000, with most offers between $120,000 and $185,000, and senior cloud-infrastructure specialists clearing $190,000 to $230,000 in total pay. That band sits higher than most backend languages. The reason is the part no salary tracker prints. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Tech salary benchmarking is the practice of pricing a role against several live market sources at once, adjusted for level, location, and stack, instead of trusting one published average that started aging the day it went out. A number is not a benchmark. A method is. What … Read more
