2022 Cloud Salary Survey

Chapter 1. 2022 Cloud Salary Survey

Last year, our report on cloud adoption concluded that adoption was proceeding rapidly; almost all organizations are using cloud services. Those findings confirmed the results we got in 2020: everything was “up and to the right.” That’s probably still true—but saying “everything is still up and to the right” would be neither interesting nor informative. So rather than confirming the same results for a third year, we decided to do something different.

This year’s survey asked questions about compensation for “cloud professionals”: the software developers, operations staff, and others who build cloud-based applications, manage a cloud platform, and use cloud services. We limited the survey to residents of the United States because salaries from different countries aren’t directly comparable; in addition to fluctuating exchange rates, there are different norms for appropriate compensation. This survey ran from April 4 through April 15, 2022, and was publicized via email to recipients of our Infrastructure & Ops Newsletter whom we could identify as residing in the United States or whose location was unknown.

Executive Summary

• Survey respondents earn an average salary of $182,000.

• The average salary increase over the past year was 4.3%.

• 20% of respondents reported changing employers in the past year.

• 25% of respondents are planning to change employers because of compensation.

• The average salary for women is 7% lower than the average salary ...