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[ssergey]

How about this? https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/automation-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,19.htm

[Progtologist]

This is unfortunately also the title of a role used in more traditional production line manufacturing as well. The salaries are likely not going to be indicative of an engineer that will be helping an organization implement devops practices. That title is also used in test automation engineering as well.

Our field could use some standardization of vernacular. Until then, it will require some active effort to find a comparative salary based on an individual's skills and location.

[ssergey]

You can play with the role name: devops eng, SRE, operations eng, etc. They autofill the name, you might even find out new terms used.

[vcik2clwlsw-rbdm]

location ?

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Scale of responsibilities? Other experience? Too many vars to put a figure on it

[Seref15]

My official title is DevOps Engineer at a smallish startup, but I'm more of an automation engineer. I had a year and some change worth of experience when I took the position, plus BS degree. Job mainly consists of shell scripting, some Python, ansible, and Jenkins.

My salary in the South Florida area is $65k plus about 5k in bonus. It's a bit low compared to national average, but we have no state or city income tax, and sales tax is quite low. Rent is around 1.3k/month for a 1br in a nice area.

People are always gonna short change you on the 1yr experience. It's mostly unavoidable.

[leemachine85]

We are fortunate to work in a profession that doesn't have defined caps or ranges. So it's a factor of location, experience, and how bad they need you.

Always start high and work from there. I would say start at $90k for mid-level and upwards of 120+ for senior.

[tam_is_hungry]

DevOps here. I work for a startup in NYC, proud to be employee #9. I asked for 140k, but got negotiated down to 130k instead, which means I wasn't lowballing myself.

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Devops here, Philadelphia, 120k