Space company salaries

Every figure here comes from a pay range an employer published in its own job posting. We take the range from the posting’s pay fields when the employer’s careers site provides them, and otherwise read it from the posting text with fixed rules. No figure is a self-reported salary, a survey answer or a SpaceNexus estimate.

What counts: a closed range with both ends stated, in US dollars, in a posting in the United States or one that names no country. A yearly range counts toward yearly pay. A monthly or weekly range becomes yearly only when the posting states that period. Hourly ranges are shown on their own and are never turned into yearly pay.

What does not count: open figures such as “up to $60 an hour”, a single number with no range, a range with no period stated, several ranges in one posting, other currencies, postings outside the United States, and jobs posted directly on SpaceNexus, paid or free, so no payment can add to or move any figure.

How the figures are made: we take the midpoint of each posting’s range, then the median and the middle half (25th to 75th percentile) of those midpoints. A group needs at least 5 postings with a published range before we show a figure, and every figure says how many postings it comes from. Each posting counts once. An employer that lists the same role in several places has one posting per place.

Why ranges exist: pay transparency laws in states such as California, Colorado, New York and Washington require many employers to publish a pay range in job ads. Many postings still have none, so every group also shows the share of its postings that publish pay.

A posted range is what the employer says it expects to pay a new hire. It is not an offer, and it leaves out bonus, equity and benefits.

Data: active postings on November 12, 2026, recomputed every day.