Parsons pay · 31 Oct 2026
How much does Parsons pay?
Typical pay at Parsons, as a year's pay: $142k–$241k/yr, median $142k/yr. Those figures come from the 22 openings listing a rate on 31 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $74.8k/yr at the bottom to $332k/yr at the top.
Measured from 22 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours).
Parsons pay, discipline by discipline
Every row sets Parsons'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.
Parsons's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Software & IT. There its roles typically pay $142k–$202k/yr (median $142k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,232 Software & IT roles in all, pays $135k–$267k/yr (median $161k/yr).
Best-paid Parsons openings right now
Every Parsons role by payPrograms & Business · CO, Colorado Springs· 2d agoDetails
$176,900–$332,400/yrPortfolio Director, Air and Space Force Programs (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Remote· 2w agoDetails
$157,500–$283,500/yrSpace Situational Awareness SME (opens the job details)
Science & Data · CO, Colorado Springs· 1mo agoDetails
$134,100–$241,400/yrC3BM Principal Systems Engineer – Advanced Technologies (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · AL, Huntsville· 5d agoDetails
$134,100–$241,400/yrPNT/Space Integration Engineer (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · AL, Huntsville· 3d agoDetails
$134,100–$241,400/yrSystems Engineer, Senior (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · MD, Annapolis Junction, United States of America· 2mo agoDetails
$134,100–$241,400/yr
Parsons pay: questions
How much does Parsons pay?
Typical pay at Parsons, as a year's pay: $142k–$241k/yr, median $142k/yr. Those figures come from the 22 openings listing a rate on 31 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $74.8k/yr at the bottom to $332k/yr at the top.
Which open Parsons role pays the most?
As of 31 Oct 2026 the best-paid opening is Sr. Director, Space and Missile Defense Solutions Business Development & Capture, at $255k/yr, posted as "$176,900-$332,400 per year". Every open role by pay.
Is Parsons's pay above the market for the same work?
Parsons's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Software & IT. There its roles typically pay $142k–$202k/yr (median $142k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 2,232 Software & IT roles in all, pays $135k–$267k/yr (median $161k/yr).