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Salaries in San Francisco, CA
The average salary in San Francisco, CA is $177.6–270.3K per year, based on 52 jobs. Jobs in San Francisco, CA pay 40% above the average salary of $127.9–191.1K for jobs listed on Tech Jobs.
Median salary
$212.5K
Based on 52 jobs · 40% more than the average salary on Tech Jobs
25th percentile
$150K
Average
$224K
75th percentile
$300K
Top paying titles in San Francisco, CA
Highest paying job titles in San Francisco, CA, ranked by average salary.
Software Engineering
Avg. $173.3–271.5K · 21 jobs
Backend Engineering
Avg. $174.4–287.1K · 16 jobs
AI Engineer
Avg. $192.4–290.4K · 10 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $198.1–296.3K · 7 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $202–326.2K · 6 jobs
Backend Development
Avg. $170.8–237.5K · 6 jobs
Backend Engineer
Avg. $190–363.8K · 4 jobs
Engineering
Avg. $168.8–328.8K · 4 jobs
API Development
Avg. $167.5–243.8K · 4 jobs
Platform Engineering
Avg. $188.9–246.6K · 4 jobs
Top paying skills in San Francisco, CA
Highest paying skills in San Francisco, CA, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $181.5–276.8K · 37 jobs
AWS
Avg. $184.4–274.2K · 17 jobs
Distributed Systems
Avg. $176.4–278K · 15 jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $176.5–255.2K · 14 jobs
Typescript
Avg. $184.7–313.5K · 12 jobs
Go
Avg. $184.4–300.7K · 12 jobs
CI/CD
Avg. $169.6–281.5K · 11 jobs
SQL
Avg. $170.9–263.3K · 11 jobs
Rust
Avg. $183.9–307.7K · 9 jobs
Machine Learning
Avg. $161.7–229.3K · 8 jobs
Top paying companies
Highest paying companies, ranked by average salary.
RRemote
Avg. $53.3–119.9K · 18 jobs
IInstacart
Avg. $154.9–188.3K · 14 jobs
CCACI, INC.-FEDERAL
Avg. $103.8–221.7K · 13 jobs
NNVIDIA USA
Avg. $169.8–291.9K · 13 jobs
FFortinet, Inc.
Avg. $100.9–128.7K · 9 jobs
GGD Information Technology, Inc.
Avg. $144.2–191.3K · 8 jobs
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San Francisco, CA salary FAQs
All salary figures are converted to annual equivalents in USD. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.