Distribución lado a lado
Principal Engineer
$168,500
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 47.8%
- Puestos activos
- 6,468
Software Engineer
$172,500
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 33.5%
- Puestos activos
- 32,941
Empleos mejor pagados
Principal Software Engineer
Staff / Principal Data Engineer
Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems
Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training
Distinguished Engineer - Servicing Tech
Principal Sales Systems Engineer
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ads Quality
Principal Engineer, Autonomy
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Audio)
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer - AI
Senior Software Engineer - Database team
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Staff Software Engineer, Code RL
Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code
Software Engineer, Research Productivity
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Northrop Grumman
|
$129,500 | 1,024 |
Elastic
|
$123,105 | 60 |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
|
$260,500 | 49 |
Roblox
|
$320,145 | 47 |
| AL Astera Labs | $209,000 | 41 |
Leidos
|
$184,325 | 39 |
Blue Origin
|
$219,831 | 38 |
Draper
|
$170,000 | 38 |
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 355 |
|
Northrop Grumman
|
$131,950 | 272 |
|
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 176 |
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$142,400 | 168 |
SpaceX
|
$142,500 | 165 |
|
OpenAI
|
$355,500 | 151 |
Speechify
|
$170,000 | 144 |
|
Blue Origin
|
$197,582 | 140 |
Salario de Principal Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $266,000 | 100 |
| Seattle | $245,417 | 98 |
| New York | $231,050 | 127 |
| Los Angeles | $230,750 | 50 |
| Atlanta | $228,000 | 23 |
| Boston | $223,750 | 74 |
| Denver | $203,549 | 44 |
| Austin | $200,000 | 44 |
| Chicago | $197,050 | 40 |
| Berlin | $159,275 | 3 |
Salario de Software Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $226,000 | 1,568 |
| Sydney | $212,347 | 4 |
| New York | $212,000 | 1,400 |
| Seattle | $203,250 | 689 |
| Los Angeles | $194,675 | 242 |
| Austin | $187,000 | 196 |
| Boston | $186,050 | 284 |
| Denver | $180,316 | 216 |
| London | $175,359 | 131 |
| Atlanta | $164,450 | 127 |
Principal Engineer vs Software Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de Principal Engineer es de $168,500 por año (normalmente $130,299–$216,263), frente a $172,500 de Software Engineer ($134,264–$215,000). Eso pone a Software Engineer alrededor de un 2% por delante en la mediana.
Ambas cifras se calculan en vivo a partir de ofertas activas en JobsRadar y se normalizan a USD anualizado, de modo que Principal Engineer y Software Engineer se comparan en igualdad de condiciones independientemente de la moneda en la que se publicó originalmente cada puesto. Solo los puestos que publican un rango salarial alimentan las medianas; las cifras se actualizan cada pocas horas a medida que se publican nuevos puestos y se cierran los antiguos, así que esta comparación refleja el mercado actual y no una encuesta fija. Úsala como referencia orientativa al sopesar un camino frente a otro.