u/jobswithgptcom

I made this tool to help people looking to change careers to get an understanding of market pay - hope it helps!

I recently built a tool to explore base salaries in US advertised on job postings, here is a summary from about 20k samples overall. I have used BLS RPP data to adjust for cost of living.

The broad Software Engineering family has a median of about $150.8k nominal, or $141.7k cost-adjusted. The p95 is roughly $258.0k nominal, which gives a sense of the upper end for posted salary ranges.

The highest-paying SWE adjacent track is Machine Learning & AI, with a median around $200.2k nominal / $191.9k adjusted, and a p95 of about $337.1k nominal / $317.7k adjusted.

Engineering leadership (mostly EMs, Sr. EMs) is close behind: software-engineering-leadership has a median around $198.8k nominal / $187.6k adjusted, with p95 around $309.4k nominal / $290.6k adjusted.

Backend roles also show strong upside. backend-software-engineering comes in at about $196.8k median nominal / $183.5k adjusted, with p95 around $323.7k nominal / $303.3k adjusted. The broader backend-engineer bucket is similar: $190.2k median nominal / $178.4k adjusted, with p95 around $300.0k nominal / $278.0k adjusted.

Frontend and full-stack are a little lower but still strong. frontend-software-engineering has a median around $182.5k nominal / $169.3k adjusted, with p95 around $270.0k nominal / $249.2k adjusted. full-stack-software-engineering is around $176.8k nominal / $167.0k adjusted, with p95 near $268.9k nominal / $252.9k adjusted.

Data engineering and infrastructure is one of the bigger categories by volume. Median pay is about $175.0k nominal / $166.8k adjusted, and p95 is around $292.5k nominal / $278.0k adjusted.

DevOps/SRE is mixed. The overall DevOps & SRE family has a median around $170.0k nominal / $158.8k adjusted, with p95 around $277.6k nominal. The site-reliability-engineering leaf is slightly higher at about $180.0k nominal / $167.6k adjusted, with p95 around $289.2k nominal / $280.0k adjusted.

Geographically, the Bay Area still dominates the software engineering sample: 3,482 Software Engineering samples, median around $196.8k nominal / $177.7k adjusted. New York Metro follows with 1,961 samples, around $180.5k nominal / $167.3k adjusted. Seattle is next among major tech metros at about $167.2k nominal / $156.2k adjusted.

Main takeaway: ML/AI, leadership, backend, and data infrastructure have the strongest salary upside. General SWE is respectable, but the p95 numbers show that specialization and seniority matter a lot once you get into the upper end of posted ranges.

https://corvi.careers/mcp and docs @ https://corvi.careers/ai/ No signup required or API key.

Anyone can say they are a “strong communicator,” “team player,” or “problem solver.” Those phrases are so common that they barely register.

Instead, turn the soft skill into evidence:

Weak:

> Strong communicator and collaborative team player.

Better:

> Coordinated weekly checkins between staff, vendors, and management to keep a project on schedule.

Weak:

> Excellent problem solving skills.

Better:

> Identified the cause of repeated scheduling conflicts and created a new process that reduced last minute changes.

Weak:

> Great leadership skills.

Better:

> Trained new employees on daily procedures and helped them become independent in their first month.

Hello - I have been developing https://corvi.careers/  and wanted to reshare with the community as it's been a while since I posted. It is a simple job search engine that directly sources from thousands of websites directly. There are also curated pages like https://corvi.careers/jobs/chicago/ am hoping this will be helpful for people trying to find a new job.

Hello - I have been developing https://corvi.careers/  and wanted to reshare with the community as it's been a while since I posted. It is a simple job search engine that directly sources from thousands of websites directly. There are also curated pages like https://corvi.careers/jobs/austin/ am hoping this will be helpful for people trying to find a new job.