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Loft Orbital salaries
Salary bands for the 56 roles Loft Orbital 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 Loft Orbital's listings. How the estimates are made.
Summary
Open roles
56
1 remote-friendly
Median band
$140k–$190k
across 46 roles with a band
Range stated in posting
54%
30 stated · 16 SpaceNexus estimates
Vs industry benchmark
+15%
midpoint $165k vs $144k
Loft Orbital's median band midpoint of $165k sits 15% 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
Software engineering
16
$144k–$205k
Stated in posting (9 of 12)
Program and project management
7
$155k–$190k
Stated in posting (4 of 7)
Avionics and electrical
5
$150k–$200k
Stated in posting
Systems engineering
5
$153k–$203k
Stated in posting (4 of 5)
Data, ML and AI
4
$140k–$210k
Stated in posting
Manufacturing and technicians
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 Loft Orbital currently show a median band of $148k–$203k per year across 24 live listings (ranges stated in the postings). Across all 56 open roles the median band is $140k–$190k.
How many open roles does Loft Orbital have?
56 live roles as of Oct 7, 3:27 PM UTC, synced from Loft Orbital's own careers page, led by software engineering (16), program and project management (7), avionics and electrical (5). The largest locations are Golden, CO, Toulouse, Occitanie, San Francisco, CA. 1 is remote-friendly.
Are these Loft Orbital salaries stated by the company or estimated?
30 of 56 postings (54%) 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 7, 3:27 PM UTC. Listings mirror Loft Orbital'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 Loft Orbital.