Remote Work Data · Updated July 28, 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

$207K

Across all remote roles with published ranges

25th percentile

$155K

Lower quartile

75th percentile

$263K

Upper quartile

Sample size

2,120

of 11,047 total live listings

Cite

RemNavi Remote Salary Index, July 28, 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.

Security56 jobs · $260K med
$216,000$321,750
QA/Testing9 jobs · $259K med
$200,675$287,600
DevOps/Infra116 jobs · $245K med
$214,500$307,500
Fullstack33 jobs · $244K med
$207,000$278,200
Data Engineering14 jobs · $235K med
$174,960$309,000
Mobile12 jobs · $235K med
$226,600$307,500
Backend37 jobs · $230K med
$199,000$285,000
Data/ML118 jobs · $226K med
$193,500$252,500
Software Engineering335 jobs · $225K med
$184,000$270,000
Design21 jobs · $211K med
$177,500$306,000
Frontend13 jobs · $208K med
$183,500$243,750
Marketing91 jobs · $205K med
$152,500$252,000
Other1112 jobs · $194K med
$143,000$251,000
Sales82 jobs · $166K med
$135,000$230,000
Customer Success71 jobs · $153K med
$119,073$196,000

Salary by Seniority

How compensation scales with experience level.

Junior26 jobs · $123K med
$97,000$194,000
Mid1196 jobs · $196K med
$145,000$255,500
Senior447 jobs · $200K med
$166,500$230,500
Staff155 jobs · $242K med
$198,000$270,000
Lead254 jobs · $248K med
$197,500$309,500
Principal42 jobs · $227K med
$192,510$294,275

Top Paying Remote Employers

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

CompanyMedianJobs
postman$370K11
Airtable$290K4
Openai$285K431
Reddit$276K10
Discord$264K4
Vercel$260K4
Temporal$259K6
Perplexity$253K46
vercel$245K44
Anyscale$245K7
Forter$241K4
Pinterest$238K10
cloudflare$236K40
netlify$235K3
Figma$233K16
Render$230K28
Headway$230K9
Airbyte$226K12
Workos$225K22
Spotify$223K4

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: press@remnavi.com.

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Data sourced from 11,047 remote job listings across 50+ sources · Last updated July 28, 2026