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Advertised pay in SF Bay Area
What companies advertise for 41 roles in SF Bay Area, built only from postings they placed here. The highest midpoint is Research Scientist at $370,000. Advertised base pay from employers' own postings — not salaries anyone was confirmed to be paid.
What companies advertise in SF Bay Area, by role
Ranked by midpoint. Each range is built only from postings the employer placed in SF Bay Area, so this is SF Bay Area pay — not a national average. "Companies" is how many distinct employers advertised the role here.
| Role | Midpoint | Advertised range | Companies | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Scientist | $370,000 | $126,000–$850,000 | 8 | 77 |
| Software Engineering Manager | $320,145 | $162,400–$850,000 | 10 | 67 |
| Mechanical Engineer | $280,500 | $230,000–$310,000 | 2 | 3 |
| Data Engineer | $280,500 | $140,000–$405,000 | 6 | 14 |
| DevOps Engineer | $276,000 | $90,000–$605,000 | 14 | 137 |
| Information Security Analyst | $272,300 | $146,000–$490,000 | 13 | 55 |
| Software Engineer | $269,270 | $106,000–$850,000 | 19 | 651 |
| Product Design Manager | $265,000 | $158,765–$405,000 | 3 | 3 |
| Lawyer | $264,620 | $167,800–$423,120 | 13 | 44 |
| Electrical Engineer | $257,500 | $159,000–$380,000 | 2 | 2 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $257,400 | $138,905–$555,000 | 11 | 96 |
| Data Scientist | $257,000 | $114,297–$515,000 | 12 | 81 |
| Product Manager | $253,581 | $108,000–$490,000 | 18 | 138 |
| Marketing Operations Manager | $249,250 | $206,800–$310,200 | 2 | 2 |
| IT Support Specialist | $247,500 | $230,000–$265,000 | 1 | 2 |
| Sales Enablement Manager | $240,000 | $136,000–$290,000 | 3 | 3 |
| Systems Analyst | $237,500 | $131,300–$270,000 | 3 | 7 |
| Sales Representative | $233,100 | $63,700–$550,000 | 12 | 44 |
| Business Development Manager | $230,000 | $75,000–$425,000 | 7 | 14 |
| Technical Program Manager | $228,000 | $98,561–$445,000 | 16 | 108 |
| Customer Success Manager | $226,700 | $97,000–$325,000 | 6 | 16 |
| Sales Engineer | $215,000 | $119,000–$298,000 | 6 | 18 |
| Solution Architect | $213,750 | $149,000–$380,000 | 4 | 10 |
| Product Designer | $212,600 | $109,242–$432,684 | 11 | 43 |
| QA Engineer | $212,360 | $109,242–$405,000 | 6 | 12 |
| Partner Manager | $210,750 | $138,000–$425,000 | 8 | 26 |
| Hardware Engineer | $208,000 | $159,000–$300,000 | 2 | 2 |
| Financial Analyst | $205,500 | $123,700–$352,000 | 3 | 10 |
| Sales Manager | $201,375 | $112,080–$420,000 | 4 | 8 |
| People Operations Specialist | $195,000 | $105,000–$295,000 | 2 | 2 |
| Marketing Manager | $193,213 | $94,000–$320,000 | 14 | 54 |
| Business Operations Manager | $192,500 | $134,540–$348,000 | 4 | 6 |
| Management Consultant | $189,950 | $105,000–$310,000 | 4 | 4 |
| Data Analyst | $189,000 | $112,000–$257,600 | 2 | 5 |
| Chief of Staff | $183,000 | $150,000–$225,000 | 1 | 3 |
| Recruiter | $181,250 | $99,000–$352,000 | 9 | 28 |
| Legal Operations Manager | $177,993 | $99,200–$252,210 | 2 | 2 |
| Copywriter | $176,245 | $81,921–$246,000 | 3 | 3 |
| Executive Administrative Assistant | $170,788 | $68,000–$269,000 | 4 | 8 |
| Accountant | $153,500 | $67,000–$274,550 | 7 | 14 |
| Paralegal | $146,700 | $107,610–$234,500 | 4 | 4 |
Read this before quoting a number. These are the ranges the company itself advertised in its job postings, which US pay-transparency law requires it to publish. They are not salaries anyone was confirmed to be paid, and they are not survey percentiles.
Low is the lowest floor seen across every posting and high is the highest ceiling, so one company's whole spread — junior to staff, and every city it pays differently in — sits between those two numbers. Midpoint is the median of each posting band's own midpoint.
Base pay only. Equity, bonus and benefits are excluded, and at the companies where equity is most of the offer that makes these figures a floor rather than a total. Figures are US postings in US dollars; postings in other currencies were dropped rather than converted at a rate we would have had to invent.
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