Data Engineer Salary
Build data pipelines, warehouses and infrastructure
The median Data Engineer salary is $150,500, with the middle 50% earning between $126,750 and $202,250 and the top 10% above $229,142. Based on 569 reported salaries.
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Data Engineer salary by city
- Washington, DC: $202,250 median (85 reported)
- San Francisco, CA: $198,000 median (45 reported)
- New York, NY: $192,500 median (49 reported)
- Chicago, IL: $192,050 median (18 reported)
- Seattle, WA: $181,250 median (12 reported)
- Remote: $159,718 median (42 reported)
- Vancouver, BC: $153,000 median (4 reported)
- Atlanta, GA: $149,500 median (10 reported)
- Boston, MA: $149,375 median (8 reported)
- Toronto, ON: $108,750 median (48 reported)