Backend Engineer Salary
Build server-side logic, APIs and data pipelines
The median Backend Engineer salary is $194,400, with the middle 50% earning between $158,000 and $215,000 and the top 10% above $246,150. Based on 417 reported salaries.
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Backend Engineer salary by city
- Los Angeles, CA: $227,750 median (4 reported)
- Washington, DC: $211,200 median (38 reported)
- Seattle, WA: $208,750 median (12 reported)
- San Francisco, CA: $205,000 median (73 reported)
- Chicago, IL: $204,175 median (6 reported)
- New York, NY: $200,000 median (42 reported)
- Remote: $196,000 median (83 reported)
- Vancouver, BC: $189,763 median (4 reported)
- Denver, CO: $174,061 median (4 reported)
- Austin, TX: $169,950 median (9 reported)
- Boston, MA: $150,000 median (10 reported)
- Toronto, ON: $135,000 median (31 reported)
- Montréal, QC: $81,000 median (3 reported)