SOC Analyst salary
What SOC analysts and incident responders are offered right now, taken from the salary ranges employers print in their own open postings rather than from self-reported surveys. The headline band is for every level together; the tables below separate first jobs from senior seats, remote from on-site, and one employer from another.
Typical means the span from the 25th percentile of range midpoints to the 90th percentile of range tops, every figure taken as a full-time year (an hourly rate times 2,080 hours). A group below needs enough distinct ranges for a figure of its own; where it has fewer, the table says so instead of guessing. The methodology explains how postings are read.
By seniority
Pay at each rung, from intern to manager
Titles are grouped by the level they name. A title with no level word is usually a mid-level seat.
| Level | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern or student | 7 | $41.6k–$64.5k/yr | $45.8k/yr |
| Junior, entry or associate | 1 | too few ranges | |
| No level in the title | 42 | $120k–$325k/yr | $157k/yr |
| Senior, staff or principal | 67 | $163k–$273k/yr | $192k/yr |
| Lead or manager | 13 | $168k–$344k/yr | $174k/yr |
Workplace
Remote against on-site and hybrid
| Workplace | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 54 | $159k–$318k/yr | $186k/yr |
| On-site or hybrid | 76 | $142k–$306k/yr | $172k/yr |
Kind of employer
Who pays more: vendors, banks, cloud companies or labs
| Employer kind | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI labs | 6 | $326k–$445k/yr | $340k/yr |
| Finance, payments and crypto | 5 | $204k–$298k/yr | $216k/yr |
| Software and internet companies | 33 | $150k–$324k/yr | $189k/yr |
| Security software companies | 43 | $151k–$250k/yr | $176k/yr |
| Cloud, data and infrastructure | 20 | $162k–$286k/yr | $175k/yr |
| Security consultancies and managed services | 4 | $123k–$205k/yr | $155k/yr |
| Defense, aerospace and hardware | 19 | $52k–$201k/yr | $105k/yr |
Employers
Best-paying employers for SOC analysts and incident responders
Only employers with enough stated ranges in this specialty for a figure of their own, highest middle first.
| Employer | With a salary | Typical | Middle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 3 | $340k–$405k/yr | $353k/yr |
| 3 | $214k–$356k/yr | $238k/yr | |
| Huntress | 6 | $186k–$240k/yr | $219k/yr |
| Palo Alto Networks | 8 | $184k–$262k/yr | $201k/yr |
| CoreWeave | 4 | $157k–$265k/yr | $180k/yr |
| CrowdStrike | 16 | $148k–$235k/yr | $168k/yr |
| Samsara | 4 | $129k–$235k/yr | $157k/yr |
| WHOOP | 3 | $120k–$170k/yr | $150k/yr |
| SpaceX | 8 | $105k–$198k/yr | $124k/yr |
| Rocket Lab | 6 | $39.5k–$52k/yr | $45.8k/yr |
Open now
The highest salaries stated in open postings
- SoC Engineer · San Francisco$287,000-$485,000 per year
- Security Engineer, Detection & Response · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC$300,000-$405,000 per year
- Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response Platform · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC$320,000-$405,000 per year
- Coveware - Incident response Director (Remote: West Coast / Pacific Time) · Remote, United States$215,640-$400,440 per year
- Incident Response Manager - Product & Engineering · Dublin, IE; London, UK; New York City, NY; Remote-Friendly, United States$290,000-$365,000 per year
- Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response · Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US$177,185-$364,795 per year
- Security Engineer, Detection & Response · San Francisco$300,000-$350,000 per year
- Sr. Director, Engineering - Next-Gen SIEM (Hybrid) · USA - Sunnyvale, CA; USA - New York, NY; USA - Austin, TX; USA - Redmond, WA$235,000 - $350,000 per year
- (Senior OR Staff) Detection & Response Engineer · New York City$187,000-$328,888 per year
- Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response · Bay Area, CA, United States of America$217,800-$326,800 per year
Every SOC and incident response role with a salary, highest first.
Questions
SOC Analyst pay, answered from the postings
What salary do SOC analysts and incident responders earn in 2026?
Open postings for SOC analysts and incident responders state a typical $145k–$314k/yr, with the middle at $177k/yr. That rests on 128 distinct salary ranges from 68 employers, read 11 Nov 2026. All figures are full-time yearly salaries in US dollars: an hourly, weekly or monthly rate in a posting is multiplied by 2,080, 52 or 12 (40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year).
Do remote SOC and incident response roles pay less?
On today's postings remote roles state a middle of $186k/yr and on-site or hybrid roles $172k/yr, so working remotely costs nothing here: remote seats pay at least as much. Both figures come from 130 open roles that state a salary.
Where do SOC analysts and incident responders get the highest offers?
Of the employers with enough stated ranges to compare, Anthropic has the highest middle, $353k/yr, followed by Pinterest ($238k/yr). The table on this page ranks every employer with a figure of its own.
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