Distribución lado a lado
QA Engineer
$136,000
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 35.8%
- Puestos activos
- 2,129
Software Engineer
$191,125
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 44.1%
- Puestos activos
- 15,329
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior QA Engineer
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Senior Associate - Test Automation & Tools Development Engineer
Senior/Staff Design for Test Engineer
Principal Electrical Engineer, Integration & Test
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (Staff SDET)
Embedded Software Test Engineer, Onboard Test Automation
Principal Software Engineer in Test (SDET)
Manufacturing Software Test Engineer
Software Engineer, Manufacturing Test Systems
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Software Engineer, Growth
Intermediate Backend Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Lead Software Engineer (Backend)
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Audio)
Software Engineer - Compliance
Software Engineer - EVM
Software Engineer - Solana
Software Engineer - Stellar
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$164,500 | 101 |
Air Apps
|
$61,692 | 43 |
Relativity Space
|
$153,375 | 30 |
SpaceX
|
$108,750 | 18 |
|
PlayStation Global
|
$209,700 | 15 |
Rocket Lab Corporation
|
$117,500 | 15 |
Vast
|
$166,656 | 11 |
Archer
|
$162,000 | 11 |
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
|
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 298 |
OpenAI
|
$309,000 | 113 |
Speechify
|
$170,000 | 103 |
Databricks
|
$214,700 | 98 |
Roblox
|
$269,270 | 83 |
Applied Intuition
|
$180,000 | 83 |
Palantir
|
$167,500 | 74 |
|
SpaceX
|
$137,500 | 66 |
Salario de QA Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| Bangalore | $194,838 | 3 |
| Seattle | $162,500 | 9 |
| San Francisco | $161,000 | 39 |
| Austin | $155,000 | 7 |
| Atlanta | $152,750 | 10 |
| Los Angeles | $152,500 | 25 |
| Boston | $136,400 | 12 |
| New York | $134,750 | 12 |
| Denver | $115,000 | 4 |
| Toronto | $106,250 | 20 |
Salario de Software Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $225,000 | 1,400 |
| Sydney | $224,060 | 8 |
| New York | $213,300 | 1,160 |
| Seattle | $212,500 | 419 |
| Austin | $197,000 | 137 |
| Boston | $186,050 | 227 |
| Los Angeles | $182,500 | 164 |
| Bangalore | $181,219 | 4 |
| Chicago | $179,250 | 138 |
| Atlanta | $173,875 | 58 |
QA Engineer vs Software Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de QA Engineer es de $136,000 por año (normalmente $107,500–$170,000), frente a $191,125 de Software Engineer ($152,900–$225,000). Eso pone a Software Engineer alrededor de un 41% 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 QA 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.