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Vast Quality Engineer or Inspector Salary

Vast's 19 open roles for quality engineers and inspectors post a median $154k/yr, typically $119k–$265k/yr, from 19 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Vast role
median $141k/yr
Vast's quality engineers and inspectors: 9% above it
Quality engineers and inspectors at every space company
median $129k/yr
Vast: 19% above it
Highest posted top
$268k/yr
Mission Assurance Engineer

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.

Vast quality engineer or inspector pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Level II1Too few figures
Senior1Too few figures
Staff1Too few figures
Title names no level16$154k/yr$121k–$265k/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 Vast hires quality engineers and inspectors

Open Vast roles for quality engineers and inspectors, highest pay first

Updated 31 Oct 2026, 00:03 UTC

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Questions about Vast pay for quality engineers and inspectors

How much does Vast pay quality engineers and inspectors?

Vast's open roles for quality engineers and inspectors post a median $154k/yr, typically $119k–$265k/yr, from 19 distinct pay figures in 19 of its 19 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 $268k/yr, for Mission Assurance Engineer.

Does Vast pay quality engineers and inspectors more than other space companies?

Vast's median, $154k/yr, is 19% above the $129k/yr median of the 814 open roles for quality engineers and inspectors at every space company we read (Vast's among them).

Do quality engineers and inspectors earn more than other roles at Vast?

Vast's roles for quality engineers and inspectors post a median $154k/yr, 9% above the $141k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Vast salaries compares every kind of work).

Where does Vast hire quality engineers and inspectors?

Its open roles for quality engineers and inspectors are in Long Beach, CA (18) and Mojave, CA (1).