Startup SalariesJanuary 2026
Real compensation data from 50 verified listings on Hacker News.
LLM
$2,900,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $200,000 - $5,600,000
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Claude
$180,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $100,000 - $260,000
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Android
$179,250
median from 2 jobs
Range: $178,500 - $180,000
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Knowledge Graphs
$170,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $150,000 - $190,000
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Tailwind CSS
$160,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $160,000 - $160,000
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DevOps
$155,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $150,000 - $160,000
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GCP
$155,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $260,000
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Full Stack
$151,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $140,000 - $162,000
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Artificial Intelligence
$150,000
median from 8 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $5,600,000
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React Native
$150,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $100,000 - $160,000
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GraphQL
$150,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $130,000 - $160,000
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Rust
$150,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $50,000 - $200,000
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TypeScript
$140,000
median from 15 jobs
Range: $50,000 - $260,000
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React
$140,000
median from 15 jobs
Range: $35,000 - $260,000
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Ruby on Rails
$140,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $130,000 - $150,000
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PostgreSQL
$135,000
median from 8 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $175,000
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Python
$135,000
median from 10 jobs
Range: $35,000 - $180,000
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Machine Learning
$135,000
median from 5 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $162,000
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Next.js
$127,500
median from 6 jobs
Range: $100,000 - $160,000
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Llms
$125,000
median from 4 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $180,000
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MySQL
$125,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $160,000
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Node.js
$120,000
median from 13 jobs
Range: $35,000 - $180,000
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Oauth
$120,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $160,000
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Fargate
$120,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $100,000 - $140,000
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Terragrunt
$120,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $160,000
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CI/CD
$115,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $140,000
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Kubernetes
$105,000
median from 6 jobs
Range: $75,000 - $260,000
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SQL
$105,000
median from 2 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $120,000
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AWS
$95,000
median from 6 jobs
Range: $35,000 - $150,000
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Docker
$90,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $90,000 - $125,000
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PHP
$90,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $90,000
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Terraform
$90,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $80,000 - $140,000
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Golang
$80,000
median from 3 jobs
Range: $50,000 - $90,000
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Vue.js
$62,500
median from 2 jobs
Range: $35,000 - $90,000
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