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Startup SalariesFebruary 2026

Real compensation data from 50 verified listings on Hacker News.

Showing median salaries for All Levels engineers Globally

Based on 50 verified listings30 technologies

Datadog

$181,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $180,000 - $182,000
remote

MySQL

$161,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $182,000
remote
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Ruby on Rails

$161,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $182,000
onsiteremote

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
remoteonsite

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
onsiteremote

PostgreSQL

$150,000
median from 16 jobs
Range: $50,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote

TypeScript

$150,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $240,000
onsiteremote

GraphQL

$150,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $120,000 - $175,000
onsiteremote

Python

$140,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $240,000
onsiteremote

AWS

$140,000
median from 13 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote

React

$140,000
median from 17 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote

Node.js

$140,000
median from 13 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $200,000
onsiteremote

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

Why This Data Matters

Verified HN Sources

Every month, hundreds of startups post job listings on Hacker News' “Who is Hiring” thread. We extract salary data from these listings using AI, normalize it to USD, and calculate real statistics.

Real-Time Reality Check

Unlike annual surveys or aggregated estimates that lag by months, this data reflects exactly what companies are offering right now. If the market shifts today, you'll see it here tomorrow.