Side-by-side distribution
Full-Stack
$160,950
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 26.5%
- Live roles
- 4,478
Prompt Engineer
$186,528
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 20.8%
- Live roles
- 212
Highest-paying jobs
Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)
Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI
Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Founding Engineer - Full Stack
Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning
Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Full Stack)
Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack
Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering
Lead / Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer - Console Experience
Highest-paying jobs
Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures
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/Staff System Research Engineer – LLM Inference Optimization
Senior Research Engineer, LLM Training & Post-Training
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Quantization & Deployment
Intermediate/ Senior Software Engineer - Cortex LLM Training Platform
Lead ML Engineer - Advance AI (applied ML, LLM's, ML Ops)
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$142,400 | 44 |
|
OpenAI
|
$355,500 | 26 |
CACI
|
$143,125 | 26 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$135,200 | 22 |
GDIT
|
$168,000 | 19 |
Affirm
|
$183,000 | 15 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 15 |
SpaceX
|
$142,500 | 15 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| HI Honeycomb.io | $178,264 | 4 |
|
CACI
|
$68,675 | 4 |
|
Plaud
|
$280,000 | 2 |
| SN Snowflake | $263,375 | 2 |
|
XPENG
|
$262,500 | 2 |
Otter.ai
|
$188,750 | 2 |
Censys
|
$179,000 | 2 |
Accenture
|
$118,977 | 2 |
Full-Stack salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $212,500 | 156 |
| Seattle | $202,500 | 35 |
| New York | $195,000 | 166 |
| Boston | $172,600 | 38 |
| Los Angeles | $165,000 | 27 |
| London | $156,168 | 14 |
| Austin | $155,000 | 24 |
| Chicago | $152,500 | 18 |
| Denver | $150,000 | 16 |
| Atlanta | $145,450 | 14 |
Prompt Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $228,700 | 9 |
| New York | $203,175 | 6 |
| Seattle | $195,000 | 3 |
Full-Stack vs Prompt Engineer: which pays more?
The median for Full-Stack is $160,950 per year (typically $127,025–$200,000), versus $186,528 for Prompt Engineer ($131,250–$231,950). That puts Prompt Engineer about 16% 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.