NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory pay · 30 Oct 2026
How much does NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory pay?
Typical pay at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a year's pay: $91.5k–$216k/yr, median $124k/yr. Those figures come from the 118 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $43.7k/yr at the bottom to $273k/yr at the top.
Measured from 118 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours).
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory pay, discipline by discipline
Every row sets NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory'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.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Programs & Business. There its roles typically pay $73k–$205k/yr (median $104k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,161 Programs & Business roles in all, pays $116k–$254k/yr (median $148k/yr).
Best-paid NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory openings right now
Every NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory role by payGroup Supervisor I/II - Mechanical Structures & Articulation (352C) (opens the job details)
Mechanical · JPL Campus· 1d agoDetails
$216,632–$273,000/yr- $212,264–$264,992/yr
Programs & Business · JPL Campus· 1w agoDetails
$217,152–$263,848/yrSenior Communications and Signal Processing Engineer (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · JPL Campus· 4mo agoDetails
$206,128–$250,536/yrData Scientist IV (opens the job details)
Science & Data · JPL Campus· 1mo agoDetails
$165,360–$227,864/yrData Scientist IV TS/SCI (opens the job details)
Science & Data · JPL Campus· 1mo agoDetails
$165,360–$227,864/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory pay: questions
How much does NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory pay?
Typical pay at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a year's pay: $91.5k–$216k/yr, median $124k/yr. Those figures come from the 118 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $43.7k/yr at the bottom to $273k/yr at the top.
Which open NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory role pays the most?
As of 30 Oct 2026 the best-paid opening is Group Supervisor I/II - Mechanical Structures & Articulation (352C), at $245k/yr, posted as "$216,632-$273,000 per year". Every open role by pay.
Is NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's pay above the market for the same work?
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Programs & Business. There its roles typically pay $73k–$205k/yr (median $104k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,161 Programs & Business roles in all, pays $116k–$254k/yr (median $148k/yr).