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Prompt Engineering posts with salary details

4 job posts mention Prompt Engineering and include salary information.

A post can mention several technologies. These figures describe advertised starting amounts, not what employees were paid.

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SALARY AMOUNTS COMPARED
4

Fewer than 30 usable salary amounts are available. Check the individual advertised ranges and currencies below.

Posts with salary details

4

Source-post dates

Jan 2025 to May 2026

Coverage

Public HN “Who is Hiring” posts that include salary details

What salary details are stated?

How specific are the advertised salary amounts?

Each post is grouped by the salary details extracted from it: a range, one exact amount, a minimum, or values that could not form a usable range. Extraction can miss details, so check the original post.

Salary details by stated currency
CurrencyRecordsTwo-sidedExactMinimum onlyInvalid
USD22000
EUR10100
GBP11000

Original pay evidence

Advertised offer bands

Each panel has a separate scale in the source currency. A band shows its stated lower and upper amounts; a marker shows a minimum with no upper amount. Pay period is not preserved in the listing record. These are historical advertisements, not confirmed current vacancies.

USD advertised bands. Scale covers known endpoints from 100,000 to 300,000.
RoleCompanyNative offer bandBand position, USDPost dateRemote markSource
Full-Stack AI Engineer (Contract) Form AIUSD 150,000–300,000May 2026Marked remoteView source post
Founding Software Engineer AccretionalUSD 100,000–200,000Jan 2025Not marked remoteView source post
EUR advertised bands. Scale covers known endpoints from 60,000 to 60,000.
RoleCompanyNative offer bandBand position, EURPost dateRemote markSource
Full-Stack Engineer Logiqo Inc.EUR 60,000–60,000Oct 2025Marked remoteView source post
GBP advertised bands. Scale covers known endpoints from 105,000 to 125,000.
RoleCompanyNative offer bandBand position, GBPPost dateRemote markSource
AI Solutions Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer V7GBP 105,000–125,000Jul 2025Not marked remoteView source post

In these posts

What stands out in Prompt Engineering posts

Counts are based on posts naming this technology. A post may describe multiple openings; its role-level label applies to the post, not necessarily each opening.

Most represented company

Accretional

1 of 4 posts

4 distinct company names in these posts

Most common other technology tag

LLM

Also tagged in 2 of 4 posts

Role level recorded on the post

Mid4

Other technologies named together

How Prompt Engineering posts overlap with other technologies

Each row counts posts naming that technology; a post can appear in more than one row. Salary figures are approximate annualized USD estimates of advertised minimums, not full offer ranges or employee pay.

Technology names, post counts, approximate advertised-minimum estimates, and overlap with Prompt Engineering posts
TechnologyPosts naming this technologyComparable estimatesMedian estimateMiddle halfPosts also naming Prompt EngineeringFirst and last post
Prompt Engineering These posts44Not shownNot shown4Jan 2025 to May 2026
LLM4747$150k$125k to $180k2Jul 2024 to Oct 2026
Python375375$150k$110k to $170k2Jun 2024 to Oct 2026

Approximate annualized USD estimates of advertised minimums are shown only when there are at least 30 comparable posts. “Not shown” means fewer than 30.

Starting-salary history

Advertised minimums over time

Each dot is one post’s approximate USD estimate of its advertised minimum, linked to the source post. The chart shows up to the 120 newest comparable estimates, from Jan 2025 to May 2026; older months remain in the table, so a missing dot does not mean there were no posts. Monthly summaries appear only with at least 30 comparable estimates. Values are approximate annualized USD estimates of advertised minimums, not full offer ranges or employee pay. They use a common comparison basis, not historical exchange rates or inflation. The mix of companies, recorded role levels, and currencies can change month to month.

Approximate annualized USD estimates of advertised minimums by source-post date Individual linked post floors appear as dots. Eligible month summaries show the p25 to p75 interval and a median mark. The vertical axis is approximate USD and begins at zero. Months without a valid point have no dot. 0k41k81k122k162k Source-post dateApproximate annualized USD estimate Jan 25May 26 Jan 2025 · 100,000 approximate USD floor · source post 42576170Jul 2025 · 138,814 approximate USD floor · source post 44441444Oct 2025 · 67,236 approximate USD floor · source post 45504877May 2026 · 150,000 approximate USD floor · source post 47977662 Jan 2025May 2026
Individual post, links to sourceMonthly middle-half range and median, shown with at least 30 comparable estimates
Monthly post counts and salary estimates
Monthly source-post counts and valid approximate USD advertised-minimum counts. Statistics are shown only when monthly valid sample size is at least 30.
MonthSource postsComparable estimatesMedian estimateMiddle half
Jan 202511Not shownNot shown
Jul 202511Not shownNot shown
Oct 202511Not shownNot shown
May 202611Not shownNot shown
Exact values for the 4 plotted source posts
Exact approximate USD floor value and date for each plotted source listing
DateApproximate annualized USD estimateSource
Jan 2025100,000Post 42576170
Jul 2025138,814Post 44441444
Oct 202567,236Post 45504877
May 2026150,000Post 47977662

Other technologies named together

Which other technologies appeared in these posts?

For each month, this lists the three most-mentioned other technologies and how many posts named each one. A post can mention several technologies, so these counts overlap and do not add up to the number of posts.

Monthly counts for the most common other technology tags, with each month’s source-post denominator
MonthPosts that monthOther technologies named
Jan 20251
LLM1 / 1
Jul 20251
LLM1 / 1
Python1 / 1
Rag1 / 1
Oct 20251
No other technology summary
May 20261
Python1 / 1
Rag1 / 1

Technology names per post

How many technologies are listed together?

Each post is counted once, according to how many distinct technology names it contains. This describes the post text, not required skills or role complexity.

7 tags1
10 tags2
13 tags1

Places mentioned in post text

Which places do these posts mention?

These bars compare city and nearby-area matches in this group with matches across all posts that state pay. Matches come from post text, not verified work locations. A post can match more than one place.

San Francisco

1 of 4 in this group
This group25.0%All posts with salary details325 of 1616 (20.1%)

New York

1 of 4 in this group
This group25.0%All posts with salary details330 of 1616 (20.4%)

London

1 of 4 in this group
This group25.0%All posts with salary details112 of 1616 (6.9%)

Berlin

0 of 4 in this group
This group0.0%All posts with salary details30 of 1616 (1.9%)

Location labels in these posts

Broad categories recorded for the posts

These broad labels do not confirm a specific city or where an employee lives.

  • Europe1
  • Remote1
  • San Francisco Bay Area1
  • United States1

Role level recorded on the posts

Posts grouped by recorded role level

Each group uses the role-level label recorded for the post. One post may describe several openings, so the label may not apply to every position in the advertisement.

Role titles in these posts

  • AI Solutions Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer1
  • Founding Software Engineer1
  • Full-Stack AI Engineer (Contract)1
  • Full-Stack Engineer1

Companies named in these posts

Other technologies named

Posts can name several technologies, so they may appear in more than one group.

Monthly source-post counts

Posting history

When the posts appeared

Monthly counts of matching source posts. This shows how many posts appeared, not salary growth or current vacancies.

Monthly counts of posts with salary details on this page
MonthPostsRelative volume
Jan 202511 posts
Jul 202511 posts
Oct 202511 posts
May 202611 posts

Full source listing

Posts mentioning Prompt Engineering

COMPANY ROLE SALARY VIBE STACK Actions
Form AI Full-Stack AI Engineer (Contract)
$150,000 - $300,000
[E] zen
TypeScript Python React +7
HN Apply
V7 AI Solutions Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer
£105,000 - £125,000 ≈ $139k
[E] CRUNCH
Python LLM API +7
HN Apply
Accretional Founding Software Engineer
$100,000 - $200,000
[F] CRUNCH
Frontend Full Stack Ide +10
HN Apply
Logiqo Inc. Full-Stack Engineer
€60,000 - €60,000 ≈ $67k
[E] grind
Java Spring Boot PostgreSQL +4
HN Apply
Data and method

Listings tagged with the normalized technology Prompt Engineering. These figures describe advertisements, not verified employee earnings or currently open jobs.

Dates of included posts
2025-01-02 to 2026-05-01
Posts used
4 listings; 4 valid salary-minimum observations
What we compare
Median annualized estimate of advertised salary minimums
Currency conversion
Approximate USD using ECB daily reference rates as of 2026-10-09.

Fewer than 30 usable salary amounts are available, so we do not show a group median. Check the individual offers instead.

2026 includes 1 listings and 1 usable amounts. Its median is withheld below 30 usable amounts. This year overlaps the full history; it is not an independent sample or evidence of a pay trend.

Source: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?”, aggregated by StartupJobList. Read the methodology and correction policy.

Data version for citation: 2cffbc4075da488631123d3553e03d91b77c7326174961f603567076228ff5a3