Overview

For the fourth consecutive year, Hired is releasing its annual State of Salaries report — and, once again, the results reveal that tech salaries in US markets are steadily rising. We analyzed data from our career marketplace, looking specifically at salaries for global technology workers, including software engineers, product managers, DevOps engineers, designers, and data scientists, to help answer the questions that are top of mind for tech talent today:

Because our data is from real job offers made by companies to tech workers on our platform, we have a unique window into the key salary trends shaping every industry. Hired facilitates the job search process from the initial interview request a company makes, which includes compensation details upfront, all the way to the final job offer a tech worker receives. With that, we have unprecedented visibility into salary data across a variety of geographies, companies, and positions.

In addition to mining our marketplace data, we also surveyed tech talent on Hired to better understand how compensation affects their job satisfaction and personal fulfillment.

The real salary data in this report comes from more than 420,000 interview requests and job offers facilitated through our total marketplace of 10,000 participating companies and more than 98,000 job seekers. Survey data is based on responses from more than 1,800 global tech candidates on our marketplace.

Sharing real tech salary trends from our marketplace empowers tech talent to find a job they love with a salary they deserve — in a city that makes sense for their wallet, lifestyle and career development. For companies, we recognize that their hiring funnel is just as important as their revenue funnel and that great people are the foundation of every successful business. It’s more important than ever for companies to have a robust hiring process that enables them to build strong teams.

When companies are able to offer salaries that are competitive in an ever changing hiring market, it unlocks the opportunity for more predictable hiring.