2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Doordash

Offered base salaries from 409 certified H-1B filings, across 14 roles in 8 metro areas.

DOL LCA disclosures · FY 2025 Certified, full-time filings only
Table 1 — The median offer

Half of Doordash's certified filings offered $174,304 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $153,600 and $199,534. Offered base salary excludes equity and bonus — read every figure on this page as a floor on total pay, not an average.

Table 2 — Roles

What they hire for

Offered base salary by occupation, nationwide, ordered by filing volume.

RoleMedian offerRangeFilings
Software Developers$179,982$122k – $265k201
Data Scientists$180,128$117k – $276k71
Operations Research Analysts$153,600$75k – $228k34
Computer Occupations, All Other$197,309$106k – $228k21
Management Analysts$126,400$95k – $226k12
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$105,893$65k – $158k12
Engineers, All Other$202,883$100k – $228k8
Financial and Investment Analysts$176,571$90k – $183k7
Database Architects$153,600$140k – $171k5
Computer and Information Systems Managers$258,400$217k – $294k4
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$173,638$75k – $350k151
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$188,000$96k – $258k97
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$160,000$70k – $228k73
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$180,960$117k – $265k54
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$182,978$93k – $235k10
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$155,709$122k – $161k6
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$157,000$95k – $180k6
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$188,000$105k – $206k3
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

Each row compares Doordash's median offer with the median for everyone in that occupation and metro, from federal wage statistics.

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — San Francisco$180,96068−3.0%
Software Developers — Seattle$188,00061+12.4%
Software Developers — San Jose$180,96035−15.1%
Software Developers — New York$179,98228+7.9%
Data Scientists — San Francisco$164,40325−3.4%
Data Scientists — Seattle$191,80022+16.4%
Operations Research Analysts — New York$147,01415+42.6%
Data Scientists — New York$170,60010+25.5%
Computer Occupations, All Other — San Francisco$201,3239+24.5%
Operations Research Analysts — San Francisco$144,0009+30.2%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
409 certified full-time H-1B filings. Groups under 3 filings are excluded throughout.
Market comparison
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

Filings state the offered base salary at time of application; equity and bonus are not recorded, and visa-sponsored hiring skews toward larger employers and technical roles — this page describes Doordash's visa filings, not its whole workforce. Employer names are normalised from filing entities, so figures cover the filing entity named above. We take no payment from employers for how any figure is presented, and corrections are welcome at press@salaryalmanac.com.