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SpaceX Security Professional Salary

SpaceX's 31 open roles for security professionals post a median $101k/yr, typically $64.5k–$189k/yr, from 14 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every SpaceX role
median $138k/yr
SpaceX's security professionals: 27% below it
Security professionals at every space company
median $116k/yr
SpaceX: 13% below it
Highest posted top
$200k/yr
Sr. Industrial Security Analyst (PERSEC)

Typical pay is 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. Pay is compared as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours (40 a week for 52 weeks), a weekly one at 52 weeks, a monthly one at 12 months. A posting that names only a ceiling ("up to $X") is left out of the figures.

SpaceX security professional pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Senior4Too few figures
Lead6Too few figures
Title names no level21$92.5k/yr$62.9k–$140k/yr

A level is read from the title, the first that applies from an internship to a director (the reading of our research on career levels and pay). A figure needs three distinct posted rates.

Where SpaceX hires security professionals

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC

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Questions about SpaceX pay for security professionals

How much does SpaceX pay security professionals?

SpaceX's open roles for security professionals post a median $101k/yr, typically $64.5k–$189k/yr, from 14 distinct pay figures in 15 of its 31 postings. Typical pay here is 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. The highest posted top is $200k/yr, for Sr. Industrial Security Analyst (PERSEC).

Does SpaceX pay security professionals more than other space companies?

SpaceX's median, $101k/yr, is 13% below the $116k/yr median of the 113 open roles for security professionals at every space company we read (SpaceX's among them).

Do security professionals earn more than other roles at SpaceX?

SpaceX's roles for security professionals post a median $101k/yr, 27% below the $138k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (SpaceX salaries compares every kind of work).

Where does SpaceX hire security professionals?

Its open roles for security professionals are in Hawthorne, CA (4), Memphis, TN (4), Palo Alto, CA (4), Starbase, TX (4) and Redmond, WA (3). By place, they post a median of $110k/yr in Hawthorne, CA, $64.5k/yr in Palo Alto, CA and $113k/yr in Redmond, WA.