Salary data
Remote salaries 2026.
From real listings.
Across 1,573 remote job listings with a USD salary posted on Remoteli between 8 November 2025 and 8 November 2026, the median advertised salary is $147k a year, with the middle half between $75k and $197k. Broken down by job category, skill and hiring region, straight from the listings.
In short: advertised annual salaries in US dollars only, one midpoint per listing, expired listings included, and a row only once 15 listings sit behind it. Advertised pay, not what anyone was paid. Full methodology.
- Median salary
- $147k
- Middle half of listings
- $75k – $197k
- Listings with a USD salary
- 1,573
By job category
Across the 12 job categories with the most remote listings advertising a USD salary between 8 November 2025 and 8 November 2026 (at least 15 each), Legal has the highest median at $203k a year (26 listings) and Customer Support the lowest at $55k (293 listings). Most listings imported from employers’ own job boards carry no category, so these rows cover fewer listings than the total.
| Segment | Listings | Median | 25th – 75th | Range chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 26 | $203k | $173k – $227k | |
| Engineering | 251 | $198k | $165k – $226k | |
| Data | 47 | $195k | $154k – $238k | |
| Product | 65 | $191k | $167k – $227k | |
| Design | 33 | $170k | $129k – $200k | |
| Human Resources | 32 | $156k | $130k – $182k | |
| Sales | 214 | $156k | $95k – $188k | |
| Operations | 84 | $153k | $112k – $187k | |
| Marketing | 124 | $144k | $93k – $186k | |
| Finance | 36 | $134k | $111k – $191k | |
| Healthcare | 91 | $88k | $72k – $162k | |
| Customer Support | 293 | $55k | $55k – $60k |
By skill
Across the 15 skills with the most remote listings advertising a USD salary between 8 November 2025 and 8 November 2026 (at least 15 each), LLM has the highest median at $207k a year (44 listings) and Customer Support the lowest at $55k (72 listings). A listing counts towards every skill it is tagged with.
| Segment | Listings | Median | 25th – 75th | Range chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM | 44 | $207k | $187k – $234k | |
| Machine Learning | 44 | $206k | $183k – $262k | |
| Go | 35 | $202k | $190k – $216k | |
| Java | 34 | $196k | $168k – $230k | |
| Google Cloud | 43 | $195k | $176k – $224k | |
| AWS | 78 | $193k | $170k – $216k | |
| CI/CD | 43 | $191k | $164k – $221k | |
| TypeScript | 37 | $190k | $175k – $215k | |
| Product Management | 47 | $190k | $169k – $228k | |
| Python | 90 | $187k | $154k – $210k | |
| SQL | 51 | $177k | $146k – $195k | |
| Account Executive | 50 | $158k | $110k – $179k | |
| Salesforce | 89 | $125k | $93k – $170k | |
| HubSpot | 36 | $118k | $93k – $155k | |
| Customer Support | 72 | $55k | $50k – $60k |
By hiring region
North America is the only hiring region with at least 15 remote listings advertising a USD salary between 8 November 2025 and 8 November 2026, with a median of $149k a year across 1,431 listings. Roles limited to candidates in one region that advertise pay in US dollars, so outside North America these rows lean towards US-based employers. Listings open worldwide, or to a set of countries across regions, are not in these rows.
| Segment | Listings | Median | 25th – 75th | Range chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 1,431 | $149k | $73k – $197k |
Methodology
How these figures are measured.
Recomputed once a day from the listings themselves.
- Every remote listing posted on Remoteli between 8 November 2025 and 8 November 2026, including ones that have since expired or closed, and including listings imported from employers’ own job boards.
- Only listings that state an annual salary in US dollars: 1,573 in this window. Salaries in other currencies are left out rather than converted.
- Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its advertised range, or at its single figure when it gives one. The median is the middle of those midpoints; the range beside it runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
- Figures below $10,000 or above $1,000,000 a year are treated as misreads, such as a monthly or hourly rate, and left out.
- A row only appears once at least 15 listings sit behind it.
- These are the salaries employers advertised, not what anyone was paid. Remoteli never sees applications or offers.