Umbra pay · 30 Oct 2026
How much does Umbra pay?
Typical pay at Umbra, as a year's pay: $160k–$228k/yr, median $180k/yr. Those figures come from the 25 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $80k/yr at the bottom to $235k/yr at the top.
Measured from 25 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours).
Umbra pay, discipline by discipline
Every row sets Umbra'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.
Umbra's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Software & IT. There its roles typically pay $166k–$228k/yr (median $175k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 1,709 Software & IT roles in all, pays $136k–$266k/yr (median $162k/yr).
Best-paid Umbra openings right now
Every Umbra role by payEngineering Manager (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Santa Barbara, United States, Arlington· 4mo agoDetails
$195,000–$235,000/yrGround Software Systems Architect (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Reston, United States +2 more· 3d agoDetails
$195,000–$235,000/yrStaff Space Mission Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · Reston, United States, Arlington· 7mo agoDetails
$200,000–$230,000/yrSystems Engineering Manager (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · Reston, United States, Arlington· 3mo agoDetails
$185,000–$225,000/yrSenior/Staff Flight Software Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
Flight Software · Reston, United States, Arlington· 1mo agoDetails
$185,000–$225,000/yrSenior Cryptographic Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · Reston, United States, Arlington· 3mo agoDetails
$190,000–$220,000/yr
Umbra pay: questions
How much does Umbra pay?
Typical pay at Umbra, as a year's pay: $160k–$228k/yr, median $180k/yr. Those figures come from the 25 openings listing a rate on 30 Oct 2026. Posted rates go from $80k/yr at the bottom to $235k/yr at the top.
Which open Umbra role pays the most?
As of 30 Oct 2026 the best-paid opening is Engineering Manager, at $215k/yr, posted as "$195,000-$235,000 per year". Every open role by pay.
Is Umbra's pay above the market for the same work?
Umbra's biggest kind of work with enough posted rates is Software & IT. There its roles typically pay $166k–$228k/yr (median $175k/yr); the same work at every employer we track, 1,709 Software & IT roles in all, pays $136k–$266k/yr (median $162k/yr).