Remote Work Data · Updated May 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
$210K
Across all remote roles with published ranges
25th percentile
$156K
Lower quartile
75th percentile
$259K
Upper quartile
Sample size
1,913
of 8,969 total live listings
Salary by Role
Median annual compensation (USD) from live remote listings with published ranges. Bar = 25th–75th percentile; tick = median.
Salary by Seniority
How compensation scales with experience level.
Top Paying Remote Employers
Median, interquartile range (25th–75th percentile), and hiring mix across companies with at least 3 publicly transparent salary listings. Company names link through to their open-roles page where we track them.
| Company | Median | Jobs |
|---|---|---|
Postman Other (5) · Sales (3) · Marketing (2) | $370K | 13 |
Airtable | $290K | 4 |
Openai Software Engineering (89) · Other (66) · Data/ML (34) | $285K | 384 |
Sales (16) · Solutions (11) · Software Engineering (4) | $266K | 35 |
Reddit Software Engineering (5) · Data/ML (4) | $260K | 11 |
Temporal Architecture (2) | $259K | 5 |
Perplexity Backend (2) · Product Management (2) · Marketing (2) | $255K | 15 |
Forter Sales (2) | $241K | 4 |
Vercel Software Engineering (18) · Sales (9) · Other (7) | $238K | 60 |
Pinterest Operations (3) · Backend (2) · Data/ML (2) | $238K | 10 |
Figma Finance (3) · Other (3) · Sales (2) | $233K | 15 |
Render Software Engineering (5) · Sales (3) · Product Management (2) | $230K | 19 |
Headway Sales (2) · Legal (2) · Finance (2) | $230K | 9 |
Workos Software Engineering (9) · DevOps/Infra (4) · Sales (4) | $225K | 27 |
Software Engineering (6) · Other (3) · Backend (3) | $218K | 19 |
Pendo Sales (7) · Solutions (5) · Marketing (4) | $218K | 25 |
Brex Sales (26) · Marketing (24) · Software Engineering (22) | $216K | 172 |
Calendly Other (2) | $216K | 5 |
Vanta Marketing (9) · Security (8) · Sales (8) | $215K | 77 |
Mercury Software Engineering (3) · Operations (2) | $213K | 12 |
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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