QA Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What QA Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$217,500
median over time
Typical range
$171.8k – $258.8k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
59%
151 of 256 roles
Live roles
256
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Research Engineer, Environment Scaling
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Data Engineer
Fullstack Software Engineer, Applied AI
Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack
Software Engineer, RL Data
Sr. Staff Engineer, Performance Ad Formats
Senior Director of Product, Ads Platform
Retell AI
Box
Kernel
Air Apps
Klaviyo
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How much do QA Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for QA Engineer roles in San Francisco is $217,500 per year. Most pay falls between $171,750 (25th percentile) and $258,750 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $140,000 to $315,000.
These figures are computed live from 256 active QA Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 151 (59%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid QA Engineer roles in San Francisco include Anthropic, Mercor, Pinterest and Reddit.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.