Startup Salaries and Equities in 2026
Explore startup salaries and equity compensation data in 2026. Compare salaries for various roles, skills, locations, and industries at Wellfound to consider the best job offers.
112.8k
Average Salary
3 years
Average years of experience
Salary
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Top of market
$197,375/yr
Range $165k - $224k
Average
$112,833/yr
Range $85k - $135k
Below Average
$71,833/yr
Range $54k - $85k
Top Locations
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Seattle
$124k
New York
$120k
Santa Monica
$115k
Melbourne
$105k
San Diego
$97k
Boston
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Tech Stack
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Top Tech Stacks
The top-paying developer skills of 2026 are:
1. Lisp
$208k
2. Celery
$202k
3. Clojure
$195k
4. OpenCV
$192k
5. Clojurescript
$187.5k
6. Principle
$176k
7. Scipy
$175k
8. Symfony
$175k
9. Vue
$170k
10. SOLR
$165k
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Popular roles
Software EngineerMobile DeveloperAndroid DeveloperiOS DeveloperFrontend EngineerBackend EngineerFull-Stack EngineerSoftware ArchitectMachine Learning EngineerEmbedded EngineerData EngineerDevOpsEngineering ManagerQA EngineerData ScientistDesignerUI/UX DesignerUser ResearcherVisual DesignerCreative DirectorGraphic Designer Product DesignerProduct ManagerOperationsFinance/AccountingH.R.Office ManagerRecruiterCustomer ServiceOperations ManagerSalesBusiness DevelopmentSales Development RepresentativeAccount ExecutiveBD ManagerAccount ManagerSales ManagerCustomer Success ManagerMarketingGrowth HackerMarketing ManagerContent CreatorCopywriterSocial Media ManagerManagementCEOCFOCMOCOOCTOOther EngineeringHardware EngineerMechanical EngineerSystems EngineerOtherBusiness AnalystProject ManagerAttorneyData AnalystInvestorLimited PartnerStrategic InvestorInstitutional InvestorVenture DebtVCSeed FundIndividual InvestorAngelFounder
Popular skills
PythonPHPC++JavaJavascript.NETjQueryHaskellMachine LearningBudgetingSQLC#DjangoMySQLAndroidCodeigniterMongoDBNode.jsRubySOLRGroovyDrupalMAGENTORedisRPostgreSQLCAssemblyPerlSvnMatlabCassandraProspectingPuppetUnity3DClojureNginxQtHibernateSybaseVisual BasicScalaAdobe PhotoshopSymfonySQLAlchemyRabbitmqWebGLHerokuSpringAmazon S3CeleryLispSASNeo4JOpenCVVerilogAmazon SQSSeleniumLuaMongooseAdobe InDesignGradleSQLiteZookeeperFlaskHbaseUnrealD3.jsNumpyScipyXcodeAutocadApache TomcatDartNagiosEmber.jsBackboneDynamoDBRuby on RailsAzureBootstrapSplunkWebsocketsPandasKafkaFortranExpress.jsLaravelWebRTCTypeScriptAnsysUnitySketchSparkObjective-Cscikit-learnElixirDeep LearningDockerLTEFirebaseMicrosoft VisiorundeckRustClojurescriptSequelizeXamarinKotlinDigital OceanAmazon KinesisSwiftElasticSearchSolidityAWSreactInvisionIonicPostmanKubernetesReact NativeZeplinFramerRESTful APIsGraphQLPysparkVueKerasPrinciplePrometheusJupyterElectronGoWebAssemblyAirflowAmazon ECSGCPWeb3.JsPyTorchNuxt.JsopenAIFlutterNest.JsSwiftUISvelte
Tech Hubs
Industries
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