Forward Deployed Engineer salary bands.
35 of 235 ingested FDE roles disclose pay (15%). 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 The remaining 200 roles do not publish a band; that gap is shown plainly, not extrapolated.
Disclosure baseline
35 of 235 roles publish a band (15%).
Lowest disclosed floor: $132K
Highest disclosed ceiling: $555K
Median midpoint across disclosed roles: $239K
Median, not average — one outlier can skew an average; the median tracks the typical role.
By level
| Level | Disclosed roles | Median midpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | 3 | $267K |
| Manager | 2 | $266K |
| IC | 28 | $238K |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 29 of 65 | $137K | $555K | $258K |
| Sierra | 1 of 1 | $230K | $390K | $310K |
| Decagon | 2 of 2 | $185K | $280K | $235K |
| Writer | 3 of 4 | $132K | $185K | $158K |
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.