Remote Work Data · Updated October 26, 2026

The Remote Salary Index.

Real compensation data extracted from remote job listings that publish salary ranges. Not a survey. Not self-reported. These are the numbers employers are offering right now.

Headline statistics

Median salary

$194K

Across all remote roles with published ranges

25th percentile

$133K

Lower quartile

75th percentile

$253K

Upper quartile

Sample size

589

of 3,359 total live listings

Cite

RemNavi Remote Salary Index, October 26, 2026. https://remnavi.com/tools/salary-index/
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Salary by Role

Median annual compensation (USD) from live remote listings with published ranges. Bar = 25th–75th percentile; tick = median.

Fullstack6 jobs · $263K med
$212,000$355,500
Data Engineering5 jobs · $253K med
$207,500$362,500
Data/ML25 jobs · $251K med
$201,300$275,000
Frontend5 jobs · $244K med
$208,800$275,000
QA/Testing6 jobs · $239K med
$102,500$255,500
Software Engineering57 jobs · $234K med
$174,400$287,600
DevOps/Infra28 jobs · $233K med
$184,375$275,000
Marketing20 jobs · $220K med
$167,500$277,500
Design15 jobs · $217K med
$170,000$253,000
Security16 jobs · $215K med
$142,000$243,900
Backend11 jobs · $199K med
$160,000$242,000
Mobile7 jobs · $192K med
$174,000$312,500
Sales20 jobs · $190K med
$142,000$335,000
Other346 jobs · $180K med
$115,000$239,500
Customer Success22 jobs · $97K med
$75,000$147,000

Salary by Seniority

How compensation scales with experience level.

Junior12 jobs · $153K med
$98,000$194,000
Mid320 jobs · $174K med
$113,500$250,000
Senior114 jobs · $190K med
$140,000$228,000
Staff33 jobs · $240K med
$201,500$283,000
Lead96 jobs · $228K med
$180,000$287,000
Principal13 jobs · $275K med
$200,500$321,750

Top Paying Remote Employers

Companies with the highest median salaries across at least 3 transparent listings.

CompanyMedianJobs
Capital One$306K3
grafanalabs$280K3
Openai$278K116
cloudflare$275K6
Render$263K4
Cohere$260K15
vercel$260K12
Vanta$244K8
webflow$230K3
Parachute Health$228K4
Workos$225K4
ClickUp$225K8
Ramp$220K36
Juniper Square$215K5
Perplexity$213K14
Wrapbook$209K3
Snowflake$208K49
Airbnb$202K9
asana$195K16
mixpanel$194K5

Methodology

This index is built from real job listings that include explicit salary ranges. We parse compensation data from Ashby-powered career pages (which provide structured salary fields) and from job boards that include salary information (Jobicy, Remote OK, Remotive, Himalayas).

All figures are annualised and converted to USD where necessary. We exclude listings with compensation below $20,000/year (likely hourly or monthly rates). The data refreshes daily as new listings are ingested and old ones expire.

This is not survey data. These are actual compensation ranges that employers have published on their job postings. The sample is biased toward US-based and globally-competitive remote roles, which tend to pay higher than local-market positions.

Licence · Data available under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: RemNavi Remote Salary Index. Full methodology: remnavi.com/methodology. Broader cuts: Market Index. Listing quality: Real Remote Score. Press enquiries: hello@remnavi.com.

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Data sourced from 3,359 remote job listings across 50+ sources · Last updated October 26, 2026