Side-by-side distribution
Frontend Engineer
$182,500
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 34%
- Live roles
- 965
Prompt Engineer
$194,670
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 30.2%
- Live roles
- 106
Highest-paying jobs
Site Reliability Engineer - Frontend
Staff Frontend Engineer ($400k - $500k salary)
Staff / Principal Frontend Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer, Frontend - Design Systems
Senior Software Engineer, UI
Software Engineer, Frontend
Frontend AI Principal Engineer - Cortex Code
Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
Frontend Engineer
Principal Frontend Software Engineer - Discovery UX
Highest-paying jobs
Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Training - San Francisco
Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization
Machine Learning Engineer, Inference & Serving (Speech LLM) - San Francisco
Staff Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Quantization & Deployment
Senior Research Engineer, LLM Training & Post-Training
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Quantization & Deployment
Intermediate/ Senior Software Engineer - Cortex LLM Training Platform
Senior Staff LLM Inference Engineer
Staff Attack Engineer, AI/LLM
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Inference Optimization
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Air Apps
|
$60,559 | 11 |
|
Roblox
|
$268,610 | 8 |
Harvey
|
$241,700 | 8 |
Sift Stack, Inc.
|
$192,500 | 8 |
|
Snowflake
|
$243,750 | 5 |
Reddit
|
$228,950 | 5 |
Verkada
|
$225,000 | 5 |
Sigma Computing
|
$230,000 | 4 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Otter.ai
|
$207,500 | 3 |
|
Plaud
|
$280,000 | 2 |
|
XPENG
|
$262,500 | 2 |
Censys
|
$179,000 | 2 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$151,800 | 2 |
Five9
|
$150,675 | 2 |
|
Airbnb
|
$328,500 | 1 |
|
Horizon3 AI
|
$249,000 | 1 |
Frontend Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | $208,000 | 3 |
| San Francisco | $205,500 | 73 |
| New York | $201,150 | 65 |
| Boston | $200,000 | 9 |
| Seattle | $189,000 | 10 |
| London | $171,448 | 6 |
| Chicago | $165,000 | 3 |
| Toronto | $153,750 | 13 |
| Los Angeles | $134,531 | 6 |
| Berlin | $102,373 | 4 |
Prompt Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $237,500 | 5 |
| New York | $226,000 | 3 |
Frontend Engineer vs Prompt Engineer: which pays more?
The median for Frontend Engineer is $182,500 per year (typically $139,525–$220,000), versus $194,670 for Prompt Engineer ($168,300–$237,500). That puts Prompt Engineer about 7% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Frontend Engineer and Prompt Engineer are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.