Most represented company
10 of 102 posts
70 distinct company names in these posts
Posts dated July 2024 to October 2026
Rust posts with salary details
102 job posts mention Rust and include salary information.
A post can mention several technologies. These figures describe advertised starting amounts, not what employees were paid.
Compare 2026 with all years
Compare the lower end of advertised salary ranges, estimated in USD per year. The bars show the middle 50% of amounts; the white line marks the median.
Each band shows the 25th to 75th percentile of advertised annual minimum estimates. Both groups use the same approximate USD scale.
All years · 102 amounts$150,000 median
2026 posts · 49 amounts$150,000 median
$110,000$180,000
Approximate USD per year
Source years: 2024–2026. The 2026 posts are also included in the all-year figures. This comparison does not measure a rise or fall in wages.
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.
How to read these comparisons
Rust’s ownership model is a central systems-programming distinction
Rust uses ownership, borrowing, and slices to enforce memory-safety rules without relying on a garbage collector. Cargo packages code as crates and manages dependencies and builds. Those are concrete differences from a runtime-centered tag such as Java or a systems language tag such as C++.
Rust listings can involve command-line programs, embedded work, systems components, or network services. Compare the role wording and co-mentioned platform tags rather than treating every Rust post as the same job family. A post may name a framework or protocol, but the language tag alone does not establish that specialization.
- Are these roles focused on systems, embedded software, services, or tooling?
- Which device, operating-system, or networking tags appear alongside Rust?
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 Jul 2024 to Oct 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 USD comparison
Distribution of advertised minimums
Approximate annualized USD estimates of each post’s advertised minimum, not the employer’s full offer band. The middle half of observed minimums runs from $115k to $180k across 102 comparable estimates.
The line spans the lowest to highest advertised minimum. The highlighted band spans the 25th to 75th percentiles, and the marker shows the median. Exact values follow.
Low $50kMedian $150kHigh $280k
Highlighted band: p25 $115k to p75 $180k. All values describe advertised minimums, not the upper ends of offer bands.
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