FDE salary in the US

• Each posting contributes one amount. For a range, we use its midpoint: $150,000 to $200,000 counts as $175,000. If only a minimum or maximum is stated, we use that amount. This is a summary of posted amounts, not actual salaries paid.
• Posting counts include every posting with a pay figure, matching the linked job list. Medians and percentiles use only usable annual US dollar amounts. Postings without those amounts still count but do not enter the salary calculation. Where an employer lists several location bands, we use the range recorded for that posting. Among postings with both ends stated, a range is typically $68,000 wide.
• By responsibility level: Our reading of the role from the job description, not the employer’s title.
• By location: A posting with several offices counts in each metro. Remote means the posting allows US remote work. The last rows hold postings that name no metro on this list.
• By kind of FDE work: The main kind of work each posting describes.
• Experience required: The minimum years of experience a posting states. These rows have no browse link because the years filter keeps every posting below the number you pick.
• Work arrangement: The arrangement recorded in the posting, not a company-wide policy.
• Travel: The browse filter treats postings that do not mention travel as no travel. Here they are shown separately. These rows have no browse link because the travel filter keeps every posting below the percentage you pick.
• Coding work: The main kind of coding each posting describes.
• Project stages: A posting can be in several stages.
• Company size: Estimated headcount from the company profile.
• Visa sponsorship: Only what the posting states. Most postings say nothing, and silence is not a refusal.
• The big number is the median of the amounts used. The bar under it covers the middle half of those amounts, from $160,000 up to $225,000.
• In a breakdown, a row’s band covers the middle half of that row’s postings and the dot on it is that row’s median. Every band on the page is drawn between $117K and $294K, so a longer band means a wider spread and a band further right means higher pay. On wide screens a faint line marks $193,000, the median across all postings. The location list carries no band: its medians sit too close together to tell apart at that width, so each row is one dot at its own median on an axis of its own, whose ends and steps are printed under the last row. Amounts in words are rounded to the nearest $1,000.
• A row is shown when it has usable amounts from at least 10 postings from at least 5 companies. A posting with several offices counts once in each metro. Each breakdown ends with the postings that state no value for it, on the same minimums, and those rows are left out of the sentence under the rows.
• These are the US FDE and related postings Nextmove tracks, not a survey of offers or a representative sample of the market. Counts are postings. One opening can appear as several postings, and a posting is not a hire.

Suggested citation: Nextmove, “What FDE postings pay,” US postings tracked by Nextmove, postings read on November 6, 2026, nextmove.md/fde/salary. Quote the posting count with any figure.