Astra pay · 30 Oct 2026
How much does Astra pay?
Typical pay at Astra, as a year's pay: $98.8k–$220k/yr, median $160k/yr. Those figures come from the 23 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $45.8k/yr at the bottom to $240k/yr at the top.
Measured from 23 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 13 of the 36 listings open here post no pay at all.
Astra pay, discipline by discipline
Every row sets Astra's open roles in one discipline next to that discipline across all employers, so you can tell whether it pays above or below the going rate. Typical pay means the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. Click a figure for the roles behind it.
Astra's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Technicians. There its roles typically pay $93.6k–$180k/yr (median $93.6k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,061 Technicians roles in all, pays $71.3k–$195k/yr (median $91.5k/yr).
Best-paid Astra openings right now
Every Astra role by paySr Staff Software Engineer (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Alameda, CA· 1y+ agoDetails
$179,140–$240,000/yrSr Staff Infrastructure Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Alameda, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$179,140–$240,000/yrStaff Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · Alameda, CA· 8mo agoDetails
$160,000–$220,000/yrStaff Mechanical Engineer, Spacecraft Engine (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Alameda, CA· 1y+ agoDetails
$160,000–$220,000/yrSoftware Engineer (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Alameda, CA· 1y+ agoDetails
$140,000–$180,000/yrSr. Controls Engineer, Ground Systems (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · Alameda, CA· 4mo agoDetails
$140,000–$180,000/yr
Astra pay: questions
How much does Astra pay?
Typical pay at Astra, as a year's pay: $98.8k–$220k/yr, median $160k/yr. Those figures come from the 23 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $45.8k/yr at the bottom to $240k/yr at the top.
Which open Astra role pays the most?
As of 30 Oct 2026 the best-paid opening is Sr Staff Software Engineer, at $210k/yr, posted as "$179,140-240,000 per year". Every open role by pay.
Is Astra's pay above the market for the same work?
Astra's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Technicians. There its roles typically pay $93.6k–$180k/yr (median $93.6k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,061 Technicians roles in all, pays $71.3k–$195k/yr (median $91.5k/yr).