Microsoft salaries revealed: See how much engineers, analysts, and thousands of other employees made before recent layoffs
- Microsoft hired more than 70,000 new employees during the pandemic.
- The company discloses salary data in H-1B visa applications, and Insider analyzed the data.
- See how much Microsoft paid engineers and other employees before announcing layoffs in January.
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It's been less than a year since Microsoft promised companywide pay raises to stop engineers from going to Amazon and its other competitors. Much has changed since then, to say the least.
Microsoft in January announced plans to cut 10,000 employees through March amid a wave of layoffs across the tech industry. Not even its so-called critical investment areas have been spared. Jobs in the unit responsible for integrating ChatGPT technology into Bing were among the first to go, and just this week Microsoft laid off hundreds in its security organization.
Hiring has slowed significantly, and earlier this year Microsoft started cutting compensation offers by as much as 30%, Insider previously reported.
Though Microsoft doesn't share how much it pays employees, it is required to disclose salary offers in work-visa applications submitted to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Insider combed data from the office, which authorizes hiring non-US employees and then publicly releases the data.
Insider analyzed annual salaries that ended December 31, 2022, and salaries were rounded to the nearest thousand. These salaries don't include stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation. Still, it is a valuable guide to Microsoft salaries for a variety of positions. Insider dug through the thousands of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, managers, and more.
The following data provides a snapshot of how Microsoft paid high salaries to compete for talent before the tech sector entered a historic downturn. The data may end up looking quite different over the next few quarters as the tech giants reign in spending.
The roles below are grouped by job category with guidance from the broad categories assigned by the Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Roles are listed below only if there are at least five candidates.
When you are done checking out the data below, take a look at Insider's Big Tech salary database to see how much Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, and other companies pay their workers.
Software Developers
Principal Development Lead: $203,000 - $245,000
Principal Software Development Engineer: $190,000 - $238,000
Principal Software Engineer: $175,000 - $250,000
Research Software Development Engineer: $159,000 - $165,000
Senior Research Software Development Engineer: $159,000 - $186,000
Senior Software Development Engineer: $137,000 - $208,000
Senior Software Engineer: $135,000 - $240,000
Software Engineer: $94,000 - $288,000
Software Engineering Lead: $159,000 - $244,000
Software Engineering Manager: $130,000 - $258,000
Analysts
Business Intelligence Analysts
Business Analytics Specialist: $101,000 - $166,000
Business Program Manager: $93,000 - $195,000
Customer Success Account Manager: $86,000 - $186,000
Data Analyst: $104,000 - $140,000
Lead Business Analyst: $140,000 - $165,000
Risk Manager: $126,000 - $135,000
Financial Analysts
Financial Analysis: $100,000 - $184,000
Senior Finance Manager: $130,000 - $153,000
Management Analysts
Business Planner: $135,000 - $310,000
Senior Business Planner: $144,000 - $160,000
Engineers
Computer Hardware Engineers
Hardware Engineer: $115,000 - $239,000
Senior Design Verification Engineer: $160,000 - $173,000
Senior Product Engineer: $165,000 - $190,000
Silicon Engineer: $104,000 - $200,000
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
Cloud Solution Architect: $122,000 - $190,000
Customer Engineer: $84,000 - $192,000
Customer Solutions Architecture: $131,000 - $189,000
Digital Cloud Solution Architecture: $120,000 - $160,000
Escalation Engineer: $124,000 - $147,000
IT Service Operations: $130,000 - $150,000
Partner Technical Advisor: $92,000 - $123,000
Premier Field Engineer: $130,000 - $179,000
Senior Customer Engineer: $134,000 - $171,000
Senior Service Engineer: $134,000 - $196,000
Senior Support Escalation Engineer: $115,000
Service Engineer: $110,000 - $170,000
Site Reliability Engineer: $112,000 - $207,000
Solution Architecture: $121,000 - $210,000
Solution Area Specialists: $115,000 - $180,000
Support Engineer: $77,000 - $135,000
Support Escalation Engineer: $94,000 - $135,000
Technical Advisor: $128,000 - $151,000
Technical Support Advisory: $92,000 - $138,000
Technical Support Engineer: $77,000 - $175,000
Technology Consulting: $98,000 - $153,000
Electrical Engineers
Electrical Engineer: $102,000 - $229,000
Hardware Engineer: $119,000 - $214,000
Silicon Engineer: $94,000 - $239,000
Industrial Engineers
Fulfillment and Logistics: $121,000 - $168,000
Mechanical Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: $112,000 - $191,000
Network Engineers
Cloud Network Engineer: $109,000 - $208,000
Network Engineer: $150,000 - $151,000
Senior Cloud Network Engineer: $160,000 - $172,000
Photonics Engineers
Optical Engineer: $143,000 - $198,000
Sales Engineers
Account Technology: $133,000 - $220,000
Cloud Solution Architecture: $116,000 - $200,000
Technology Specialists: $110,000 - $170,000
Validation Engineers
Reliability Engineer: $137,000 - $160,000
Software Test Engineer: $113,000 - $154,000
Designers and writers
Commercial and Industrial Designers
Designer: $112,000 - $160,000
Product Designer: $110,000 - $201,000
Senior Designer: $175,000 - $200,000
Technical Writers
Content Developer: $133,000 - $156,000
Technical Writing: $94,000 - $158,000
Specialists
Human Resources Specialists
HR Business Partnership: $110,000 - $181,000
Product Marketing
Product Marketing: $106,000 - $164,000
Product Marketing Manager: $92,000 - $169,000
Senior Product Marketing Manager: $165,000 - $215,000
Solution Area Specialists: $104,000 - $180,000
Training and Development Specialists
Business Program Manager: $145,000 - $166,000
Integrated Learning: $140,000 - $156,000
Managers
Engineering Managers
Data and Applied Scientist Manager: $133,000 - $270,000
Engineering Manager: $185,000 - $221,000
Principal Software Engineering Manager: $163,000 - $235,000
Senior Hardware Engineering Program Manager: $164,000 - $200,000
Software Engineering Manager: $130,000 - $258,000
Human Resources Managers
Risk IQ People Operations: $155,000
Product Managers
Principal Product Manager: $218,000
Product Manager: $110,000 - $225,000
Product Marketing Manager: $114,000 - $124,000
Program Managers
Business Program Manager: $93,000 - $195,000
Customer Experience Program Manager: $131,000 - $164,000
Operations Program Manager: $92,000 - $165,000
Principal Program Manager: $185,000 - $244,000
Program Manager: $97,000 - $190,000
Senior Program Manager: $129,000 - $205,000
Technical Program Manager: $105,000 - $226,000
Purchasing Managers
Sourcing and Category Manager: $123,000 - $149,000
Miscellaneous
Search Marketing Strategists
Advertising Client Success: $120,000 - $147,000
Marketing Technology: $136,000 - $161,000
Data and Science
Applied Sciences: $134,000 - $191,000
Data and Applied Sciences: $112,000 - $192,000
Data Engineer: $130,000 - $161,000
Data Scientist: $106,000 - $152,000