Startup SalariesFebruary 2026
Real compensation data from 50 verified listings on Hacker News.
Datadog
$181,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $180,000 - $182,000
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MySQL
$161,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $182,000
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Ruby on Rails
$161,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $182,000
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Pulumi
$160,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $240,000
remote
Duckdb
$160,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $120,000 - $200,000
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Playwright
$157,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $175,000
onsiteremote
Rust
$151,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $240,000
remoteonsite
Golang
$150,000
median from 5 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote
Terraform
$150,000
median from 9 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $240,000
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PostgreSQL
$150,000
median from 16 jobs
Range: $50,000 - $200,000
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TypeScript
$150,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $240,000
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GraphQL
$150,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $120,000 - $175,000
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Python
$140,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $240,000
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AWS
$140,000
median from 13 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $200,000
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React
$140,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $200,000
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Node.js
$140,000
median from 13 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $200,000
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GCP
$140,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $175,000
remote
Docker
$140,000
median from 5 jobs
Range: $125,000 - $240,000
onsiteremote
Kubernetes
$140,000
median from 9 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote
Next.js
$140,000
median from 7 jobs
Range: $125,000 - $240,000
remoteonsite
Java
$137,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $135,000 - $140,000
remoteonsite
Redis
$136,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote
Full Stack
$135,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $120,000 - $150,000
onsite
Artificial Intelligence
$132,500
median from 4 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $170,000
onsiteremote
PyTorch
$127,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $175,000
remote
Machine Learning
$120,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $150,000
onsite
Llms
$112,500
median from 4 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $140,000
remoteonsite
SQL
$112,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $100,000 - $125,000
remote
SQL Server
$104,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $119,000
remoteonsite
Ansible
$80,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $80,000
remote