Highest paying remote jobs in 2026: real salary ranges from company job postings
Most “highest paying remote jobs” lists are built from surveys or guesses. This one comes from the pay ranges companies put in their own job postings, which many now have to publish by law in states like California, New York, Colorado and Washington.
We track 324,634 open jobs on the careers pages of 10,630 companies (Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby). 62,540 of them are remote or remote-friendly, 19.4% of all postings, and 42.2% of those remote postings include a pay range.
The headline numbers
- 19,994 remote postings list a yearly salary in US dollars.
- The typical one pays $160,000 a year, taking the middle of each posted range.
- 85.7% of them go up to $100,000 or more. If you searched for “remote jobs that pay 100k”, that is 17,144 openings right now.
These are mostly tech and tech-adjacent companies, so they pay above the national average. They are also the companies hiring remotely at scale.
Remote pay by type of role
Middle of the posted range, for role types with at least 30 remote postings that list a USD salary:
| Role | Typical pay | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering - Management | $238,000 | 274 |
| Engineering - Security | $195,000 | 481 |
| Engineering - Infrastructure | $188,000 | 472 |
| Product Management | $186,000 | 639 |
| Engineering - Frontend | $186,000 | 76 |
| Engineering - ML/AI | $184,000 | 1,427 |
| Engineering - Backend/Fullstack | $177,000 | 2,757 |
| Engineering - Mobile | $170,000 | 304 |
| Engineering - Data | $165,000 | 198 |
| Design | $162,000 | 251 |
| Finance/Legal | $155,000 | 950 |
| Sales | $154,000 | 2,928 |
| Marketing | $151,000 | 922 |
| People/Recruiting | $142,000 | 278 |
| Healthcare/Clinical | $138,000 | 1,160 |
Engineering management, security and infrastructure pay the most. Sales sits lower on base pay, but those ranges usually leave out commission, so the real number is higher.
The best-paid remote openings right now
The top of the posted range, one row per title:
Very wide ranges usually span several levels, or include equity or commission. The bottom of the range is a better guide to the offer you would get.
Do remote jobs pay less?
Some companies pay the same for a role wherever you live; others set bands by location, and remote roles get the band of where you are. Postings rarely say which. If the range is listed “for US-based candidates” or has a city next to it, ask during the first call whether the number changes with your location.
Find remote jobs by salary
- ATS Jobs Search: filter all 324,634 open jobs by remote only, a minimum salary, title keywords and country. Every row has the posted range in its own currency plus a yearly figure.
- Salary Data: 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles for a job title in a country, built from posted ranges, so you know what to ask for.
How we counted
Remote means the employer marked the job as remote or put “remote” in the location (this includes remote-friendly roles). Salaries are posted ranges in US dollars per year; typos and figures outside $20,000 to $1,500,000 are left out. Role types are worked out from job titles. Talent-pool ads are excluded. Numbers refresh monthly, last on 2026-11-15. A free monthly sample is on Kaggle.