Distribución lado a lado
QA Engineer
$130,750
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 37.4%
- Puestos activos
- 5,094
Software Engineer
$171,850
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 33.7%
- Puestos activos
- 32,966
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior QA Engineer
ATE Test Development Engineer
Test Engineer, System-Level Test (SLT)
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (Infrastructure)
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (Connectors)
Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (Graph Database)
Mechanical Engineer, PCBA Test Infrastructure, Robotics
Senior Principal, Solution Test & Automation Engineer
Principal Software Test Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation
Senior/Staff Design for Test Engineer
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Audio)
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer - AI
Senior Software Engineer (Database Reliability)
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
|
$123,000 | 158 |
Anduril Industries
|
$150,000 | 147 |
Leidos
|
$122,275 | 89 |
Blue Origin
|
$145,228 | 80 |
CACI
|
$116,650 | 43 |
Air Apps
|
$59,402 | 43 |
Relativity Space
|
$155,000 | 33 |
SpaceX
|
$117,500 | 33 |
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 QA Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | $167,500 | 53 |
| San Francisco | $162,500 | 60 |
| Austin | $156,000 | 18 |
| Denver | $146,614 | 30 |
| Atlanta | $146,500 | 21 |
| Seattle | $145,228 | 87 |
| New York | $145,000 | 21 |
| Boston | $136,100 | 16 |
| Chicago | $129,000 | 17 |
| Toronto | $98,510 | 31 |
Salario de Software Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $226,000 | 1,565 |
| Sydney | $212,347 | 4 |
| New York | $212,000 | 1,398 |
| Seattle | $202,500 | 690 |
| Los Angeles | $194,350 | 241 |
| Austin | $186,650 | 200 |
| Boston | $186,050 | 285 |
| Denver | $180,316 | 216 |
| London | $177,094 | 130 |
| Atlanta | $167,250 | 120 |
QA Engineer vs Software Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de QA Engineer es de $130,750 por año (normalmente $105,225–$161,953), frente a $171,850 de Software Engineer ($133,713–$215,000). Eso pone a Software Engineer alrededor de un 31% 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.