Side-by-side distribution
Full-Stack
$176,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 30.1%
- Live roles
- 2,801
Prompt Engineer
$194,670
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 30.2%
- Live roles
- 106
Highest-paying jobs
Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)
Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI
Senior AI Fullstack Engineer
Founding Engineer - Full Stack
Staff Full Stack Engineer ($400k - $500k salary)
Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning
Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack
Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
OpenAI
|
$337,500 | 19 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$131,425 | 18 |
SpaceX
|
$142,500 | 12 |
Databricks
|
$195,500 | 11 |
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 9 |
Affirm
|
$194,766 | 9 |
Sift Stack, Inc.
|
$192,500 | 8 |
Synergyecp
|
$125,000 | 8 |
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 |
Full-Stack salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $210,000 | 161 |
| Seattle | $203,750 | 32 |
| New York | $200,000 | 166 |
| Boston | $200,000 | 17 |
| Denver | $188,000 | 9 |
| Chicago | $185,000 | 14 |
| Los Angeles | $175,000 | 21 |
| London | $154,346 | 11 |
| Austin | $147,500 | 10 |
| Toronto | $136,394 | 40 |
Prompt Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $237,500 | 5 |
| New York | $226,000 | 3 |
Full-Stack vs Prompt Engineer: which pays more?
The median for Full-Stack is $176,000 per year (typically $140,000–$207,500), versus $194,670 for Prompt Engineer ($168,300–$237,500). That puts Prompt Engineer about 11% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Full-Stack 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.