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Apex salaries
Salary bands for the 130 roles Apex has open right now, by role family and location. Where a posting states a range we show it verbatim; otherwise the band is a SpaceNexus estimate: the same bands that appear on Apex's listings. How the estimates are made.
Summary
Open roles
130
1 remote-friendly
Median band
$124k–$175k
across 126 roles with a band
Range stated in posting
83%
108 stated · 18 SpaceNexus estimates
Vs industry benchmark
+4%
midpoint $150k vs $144k
Apex's median band midpoint of $150k sits 4% above the SpaceNexus industry benchmark of $144k: the median across 58 curated space-industry roles, US base salary, as of 2026-08. Mix matters: an employer hiring mostly technicians will sit below a benchmark weighted toward engineers, and vice versa.
By role family
Titles are clustered into families (a "Senior Propulsion Engineer" and a "Turbomachinery Lead" both land in Propulsion). The band is the median of the family's listings.
Role family
Open
Median band
Source
Avionics and electrical
15
$125k–$178k
Stated in posting
Manufacturing and technicians
15
$108k–$153k
Stated in posting (6 of 15)
Software engineering
14
$149k–$191k
Stated in posting
Propulsion
12
$149k–$205k
Stated in posting
Mechanical, structures and thermal
11
$120k–$190k
Stated in posting
Other engineering
By location and remote
Estimates are adjusted for metro (LA/Bay +20%, Seattle +15%, DC +10%, Houston and remote −5%, Huntsville −10%); stated ranges are the employer's own.
Engineering roles at Apex currently show a median band of $136k–$190k per year across 66 live listings (ranges stated in the postings). Across all 130 open roles the median band is $124k–$175k.
How many open roles does Apex have?
130 live roles as of Oct 8, 1:55 PM UTC, synced from Apex's own careers page, led by avionics and electrical (15), manufacturing and technicians (15), software engineering (14). The largest locations are Los Angeles, Denver, Washington D.C. 1 is remote-friendly.
Are these Apex salaries stated by the company or estimated?
108 of 130 postings (83%) state a salary range; those are shown verbatim and labelled "Stated in posting". The rest carry a SpaceNexus estimate: our benchmark dataset of 58 roles (as of 2026-08) matched to the title and adjusted for seniority and metro. Estimates are guidance, not offers.
Counts are live as of Oct 8, 1:55 PM UTC. Listings mirror Apex's careers page; large employers often post the same role in several locations. Bands labelled "SpaceNexus estimate" are guidance from a benchmark dataset, not offers. Nothing here is a statement by Apex.