Annual pay ranges posted for 412 open roles on the boards we read have a median midpoint of $223,440 in US dollars

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

At the end of Oct 13, 2026, 412 of the open roles on the boards we read posted an annual pay range in US dollars, and the median of those ranges' midpoints was $223,440. The roles come from 7 company groups, a group being a company together with the companies under it. A posted range is what the company advertises for the role, not what anyone is paid.1^,2^,3^,4

Few roles show pay at all: 523 of the 1,784 open roles at the end of Oct 13. Of those 523, 450 post an annual range with both ends in a named currency, 71 state pay for an hour, a month or another period than a year, and 2 state no period. Only the annual ranges enter the medians; pay stated per hour or month is not turned into a year. Roblox and the companies under it have 218 of the 450 open roles that post an annual range.5^,6^,7^,8^,9^,4^,10

Each currency gets its own median and none is compared with another. In Canadian dollars the median annual range midpoint is CAD 177,400 across 26 roles from 6 company groups; in euros it is €109,800 across 12 roles from 1 company group.1^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15^,16

Roles are grouped into families by the English words in their titles, a grouping of our own. In US dollars, the median annual range midpoint for engineering and programming roles is $269,270 across 217 roles from 7 company groups, and for product management roles $305,745 across 24 roles from 5 groups. For data and analytics roles the median annual range midpoint is $216,200 across 29 roles, and for quality assurance roles $175,600 across 5 roles from 2 groups.4^,17^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26^,27

By technology, a role that names several counts under each, so these groups overlap. In US dollars, the median annual range midpoint is $234,346 for 36 roles naming Unreal Engine, from 4 company groups, and $185,000 for 7 roles naming Unity, from 4 groups. The median annual range midpoint is $256,065 for 110 roles naming C++, from 6 groups, and $220,020 for 106 roles naming Python, from 7 groups.28^,29^,30^,31^,32^,33^,34^,35^,36^,37^,38^,39

Our records cover the hiring boards of 41 companies in 31 company groups as of the end of Oct 13, 2026; a company that hires through a closed system such as Workday is not read, so a company missing from these figures is not a company without openings. These medians describe the roles on those boards that post a pay range, not hiring across the industry. Our records of the boards begin on Sep 26, 2026, and a collector run began on 9 of the 18 days from then to the end of Oct 13, with no run on Sep 27 to Sep 28, Sep 30 to Oct 5 or Oct 11, so a posting that opened and closed within those days is in no figure. A role is one company's postings that share a title, an open role is not a hire, and a role that closes is not a role that was filled.40^,4^,41^,42