Remote salary report

What remote work really pays.

Every figure on this page is computed from 288,338 remote job listings published on Remotery since March 2026, 131,360 of them with a stated salary. Nothing here is self-reported, estimated, or modelled.

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As of September 2026, the median advertised starting salary for a remote job on Remotery is $88,677 a year. Half of the 131,360 listings that state pay start between $55,000 and $130,000, and one in ten starts above $174,000.

Median starting salary

$89k

Half of the salaries employers state start above it, half below.

The middle half

$55k – $130k

From the 25th to the 75th percentile: where most offers land.

Listings that state pay

46%

131,360 of 288,338 listings since March 2026.

Entry-level to lead

$40k → $144k

3.6× across 5 seniority levels, by median.

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Pick a starting salary and see how many of the 123,928 open listings state one at or above it. The button runs the same filter on the live board.

$100ka year

26,189 open listings state a starting salary of $100k or more: 44% of the live listings that state pay.

See 26,189 jobs paying $100k+

By role

What each role pays

Starting pay for the 60 roles with the most stated salaries, highest median first. Each bar is the middle half of that role’s offers; open a row for the same role by seniority.

By seniority

Each step up the ladder

Median starting pay by the level the employer put on the listing, and what each step adds over the one before. The range under each is that level’s middle half.

  1. $40kEntry-level1,451 listings · $31k–$52k
  2. +$15k$55kJunior24,057 listings · $40k–$75k
  3. +$17k$72kMid-level69,897 listings · $48k–$100k
  4. +$20k$92kSenior92,434 listings · $60k–$129k
  5. +$52k$144kLead21,129 listings · $109k–$180k

By country

Where remote pay is highest

The 16 places with the most stated salaries, highest median first, in US dollars a year at a fixed exchange rate. Every row links to the live jobs open there.

CountryMedianMiddle half $0$150kStated payShare stating
US flagUnited States$100k$67k – $140k104,350
CA flagCanada$80k$55k – $114k5,946
GB flagUnited Kingdom$60k$44k – $93k2,345
Anywhere in the world$59k$30k – $104k1,139
PL flagPoland$57k$36k – $76k578
DE flagGermany$54k$41k – $76k2,598
ES flagSpain$45k$30k – $73k765
FR flagFrance$43k$26k – $65k815
AR flagArgentina$25k$14k – $50k491
MX flagMexico$20k$12k – $42k1,000
IN flagIndia$18k$8k – $42k778
ZA flagSouth Africa$15k$11k – $23k622
PH flagPhilippines$14k$10k – $18k2,112
BR flagBrazil$14k$7k – $29k1,212
CO flagColombia$14k$8k – $24k750
PE flagPeru$4k$4k – $4k661

Inside the US, by state

By the hour, and by type

Pay that a yearly figure hides

Hourly roles in their own unit, the yearly median by job type, and a rate turned into a salary, because a freelance contract and a full-time role are not the same market.

Hourly roles

median advertised rate · USD

By job type

median starting pay · annual USD

  • Full-time118,700 listings$90k
  • Freelance7,433 listings$60k
  • Part-time4,972 listings$50k
  • Internship255 listings$37k

Hourly and monthly listings are annualised for the yearly figures on this page (an hour × 2,080, a month × 12), the same way the salary filter compares them.

Turn a rate into a salary

at 2,080 hours a year

$62,400 a year$5,200 a month

$30/hr starts above 30% of the stated starting salaries on this page, under the median.

For employers

The transparency gap

Most remote listings still do not say what they pay. Here is how that differs by market, and what the listings that do state pay look like.

46%of remote listings state pay

131,360 of the 288,338 listings published on Remotery since March 2026 say what they pay. Where they do, 88% give a range rather than one figure, and the typical range tops out 32% above its floor: a $89k floor is advertised as $89k to $117k.

A stated range is what makes a listing comparable on this page, on the salary filter, and in the fit score every signed-in reader sees. A listing without one is compared to nothing.

Post a job with a salary rangeHow the figures are computed

Who states pay

share of listings, largest markets

  • US flagUnited States159,875 listings65%
  • CA flagCanada10,341 listings57%
  • PH flagPhilippines7,535 listings28%
  • GB flagUnited Kingdom9,758 listings24%
  • MX flagMexico4,752 listings21%
  • DE flagGermany13,267 listings20%
  • IN flagIndia8,589 listings9%
  • BR flagBrazil13,630 listings9%

Method

How every number here was made

Short enough to check. Every figure on this page follows these rules, and so does every salary figure on the job pages.

Source
Remote job listings published on Remotery, 288,338 of them between March 21, 2026 and September 5, 2026, including listings that have since closed. Nothing is surveyed, self-reported, or estimated from job titles.
What counts as a salary
The floor of the range the employer stated, so every figure is a typical starting salary, not a midpoint or a ceiling. 131,360 listings state one. A listing with no pay is left out of every average and counted only in the share that state pay.
Currency and period
Every salary is converted to US dollars a year: hourly pay times 2,080 hours, monthly times 12, other currencies at a fixed exchange table held constant across the report so that a change in a figure is a change in pay, not in the exchange rate. Hourly roles are also shown in their own unit.
Medians, not averages
Every headline figure is a median: the salary in the middle of the sample. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile. Averages are not shown, because a few very high listings pull an average up without changing what a typical listing offers.
Outliers
Stated salaries under $3,000 or over $500,000 a year are excluded as placeholders or currency errors ($0 minimums, amounts stamped in the wrong currency). They are about one percent of stated salaries.
Sample floors
A role, a country or a US state needs at least 30 stated salaries to appear; a role's seniority level needs 10; a month needs 500. Below those a median is one or two employers' opinion. A listing tagged with two seniority levels counts once in each.
Freshness
The report is recomputed from the database at most an hour after any listing is published, so every figure is the current state of the whole record, and the sample only grows.

FAQ

Questions, answered with the data.

Every answer is computed from the same report as the charts, at the same moment.

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What is the average remote salary?
As of September 2026, the median advertised starting salary for a remote job on Remotery is $88,677 a year, across 131,360 listings that state pay. The middle half start between $55,000 and $130,000, and one in ten starts above $174,000. We report medians rather than averages: a handful of very high listings pull an average up without changing what a typical listing offers.
Which remote jobs pay the most?
Among the 60 roles with at least 30 stated salaries, the highest median starting pay is Medical Director ($204,400), Vice President ($187,000), Software Engineering Manager ($166,500), Director ($153,500), Platform Engineer ($140,000). Seniority changes the picture: open any role on this page for its pay by level.
How much does seniority change remote pay?
By median starting salary: Entry-level $39,520, Junior $55,000, Mid-level $72,000, Senior $92,000, Lead $144,200. That is 3.6× from entry-level to lead, across listings that state a level. A listing tagged with two levels counts once in each.
Do remote salaries differ by country?
Yes, a lot. Among the 16 countries with at least 30 stated salaries, median starting pay runs from $100,000 (United States) down to $3,661 (Peru), in US dollars at a fixed exchange rate. Listings open to the United States, 79% of the sample, have a median of $100,000. Listings open to anywhere in the world have a median of $59,400.
How many remote jobs list a salary?
46%: 131,360 of the 288,338 remote listings published on Remotery since March 2026 state a starting salary. In the largest markets the share is United States 65%, Brazil 9%, Germany 20%, Canada 57%, United Kingdom 24%. Where pay is stated, 88% of listings give a range rather than a single figure.
Are remote salaries going up or down?
Month by month, the median starting salary of listings published since March 2026 has stayed between $43,200 and $95,000: March 2026 $43k, April 2026 $66k, May 2026 $95k, June 2026 $90k, July 2026 $90k, August 2026 $84k, September 2026 $86k. That is a few months of data, not a trend; this page recomputes every hour, so check back.
How are these salary figures calculated?
From the salaries employers state on their own listings, with no surveys or estimates. Each figure is the floor of the advertised range, converted to US dollars a year (hourly × 2,080, monthly × 12, other currencies at a fixed rate), with placeholders under $3,000 and errors over $500,000 removed. Every headline number is a median, and a role, country or state needs at least 30 stated salaries to be shown.

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