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Firefly Aerospace salaries
Salary bands for the 159 roles Firefly Aerospace 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 Firefly Aerospace's listings. How the estimates are made.
Summary
Open roles
159
5 remote-friendly
Median band
$105k–$150k
across 135 roles with a band
Range stated in posting
24%
38 stated · 97 SpaceNexus estimates
Vs industry benchmark
-11%
midpoint $128k vs $144k
Firefly Aerospace's median band midpoint of $128k sits 11% below 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
Manufacturing and technicians
40
$180k–$216k
Stated in posting (1 of 38)
Mechanical, structures and thermal
23
$110k–$140k
Stated in posting (11 of 18)
Propulsion
17
$110k–$135k
Stated in posting (14 of 17)
Avionics and electrical
11
$113k–$160k
SpaceNexus estimate
GNC and flight dynamics
10
$110k–$155k
SpaceNexus estimate
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 Firefly Aerospace currently show a median band of $110k–$140k per year across 33 live listings (ranges stated in the postings). Across all 159 open roles the median band is $105k–$150k.
How many open roles does Firefly Aerospace have?
159 live roles as of Sep 26, 7:39 AM UTC, synced from Firefly Aerospace's own careers page, led by manufacturing and technicians (40), mechanical, structures and thermal (23), propulsion (17). The largest locations are Briggs TX, Cedar Park TX, Cedar park TX. 5 are remote-friendly.
Are these Firefly Aerospace salaries stated by the company or estimated?
38 of 159 postings (24%) 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 Sep 26, 7:39 AM UTC. Listings mirror Firefly Aerospace'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 Firefly Aerospace.