Forward Deployed Engineer salary bands.
67 of 364 ingested FDE roles disclose pay (18%). Every band on this page is taken verbatim from the employer's public ATS feed — no third-party estimates, no model inference, no fabrication. The remaining 297 roles do not publish a band; that gap is shown plainly, not extrapolated.
Disclosure baseline
67 of 364 roles publish a band (18%).
Lowest disclosed floor: $110K
Highest disclosed ceiling: $315000K
Median midpoint across disclosed roles: $248K
Median, not average — one outlier can skew an average; the median tracks the typical role.
By level
| Level | Disclosed roles | Median midpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | 4 | $262K |
| Manager | 9 | $319K |
| Architect | 8 | $248K |
| IC | 46 | $243K |
Levels extracted from job titles. Roles whose titles don't carry a level token are omitted, not guessed.
Top 10 companies by disclosed ceiling
Ranked by maximum salary published across that employer's disclosed listings.
| Company | Disclosed roles | Floor | Ceiling | Midpoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere | 6 of 15 | $175K | $315000K | $45678K |
| OpenAI | 48 of 103 | $146K | $445K | $263K |
| Decagon | 10 of 10 | $110K | $266K | $181K |
| Writer | 3 of 3 | $132K | $204K | $169K |
How this page stays honest
Every figure on this page traces directly to an ingested job's salaryMin / salaryMax field
as published by the employer's ATS. Roles without disclosed pay are counted in the denominator and otherwise excluded —
they are never imputed, never modeled, never replaced with a guess.
Levels (Senior, Staff, Principal, Lead, Manager, Architect, Director, IC) are extracted from the job title with a fixed precedence rule. Titles that don't carry a level token are not bucketed.
Want the underlying data? Hit /jobs.json for the full agent-friendly feed.