Salary insights

Salary in New Zealand

Market pay levels based on 1 139 offers with salary.

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Recalculated from open vacancies where the employer states pay.

Median101 769 $Half of offers pay more, half pay less
Average101 392 $Arithmetic mean of all offers
Lower quartile80 183 $25% of offers pay less
Upper quartile119 941 $25% of offers pay more

How pay is distributed

The band covers the middle half of the market (25th–75th percentile), the line marks the median.

Lower quartile80 183 $
Median101 769 $
Upper quartile119 941 $

What the numbers mean

  • Half of all offers fall between 80 183 $ and 119 941 $.
  • Every fourth offer pays more than 119 941 $.
  • The upper quartile is 50% above the lower one.
  • The average is close to the median, so offers are spread evenly.
  • The estimate uses 1 139 vacancies with a stated salary.

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Vercel New Zealand ·

Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

280 000 – 350 000 $

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company. We free people and agents to ship what’s next. For more than a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web is built. As the team behind…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteNew Zealand
Quora New Zealand ·

Senior Infrastructure Security Software Engineer

172 279 – 249 640 $

[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries f…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteNew Zealand
Quora New Zealand ·

Detection & CorpSec Engineer

172 279 – 249 640 $

[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries f…

Full timeRemoteNew Zealand
RevenueCat New Zealand ·

Senior Product Marketing Manager

214 000 – 214 000 $

RevenueCat removes the headaches of building and scaling in‑app subscriptions. Since graduating from YC’s S18 batch we’ve grown into the default monetization platform for mobile: we’re in >…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteNew Zealand
Quora New Zealand ·

Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform, New Grad - Quora

97 600 – 139 000 $

[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries f…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteNew Zealand
NetBox Labs New Zealand ·

Senior Customer Support Engineer

115 000 – 130 000 $

About the Role As a Customer Support Engineer (CSE) at NetBox Labs, you are the technical partner your customers rely on. You immerse yourself in their world, learn how they run their netwo…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteNew Zealand

Frequently asked questions

Why show the median instead of the average?

The median (101 769 $) is the middle of the market: half of the offers pay more and half pay less. Unlike the average (101 392 $), it is not skewed by a handful of very high salaries.

What does the typical range mean?

From 80 183 $ to 119 941 $ is the middle half of all offers — the 25th to 75th percentile. A quarter of vacancies pay below 80 183 $ and a quarter above 119 941 $.

Where does the data come from?

From 1 139 open vacancies with a stated salary that Finder collects from public sources. Numbers are recalculated as the selection changes.

How do I tell whether I am paid fairly?

Compare your pay with the median and the quartiles: near 101 769 $ is the market level, above 119 941 $ is the strong quarter, below 80 183 $ is a reason to negotiate. Use the “Compare my salary” button on this page.

How we calculate salaries

Short methodology and the data behind these numbers.

  1. 1We collect offersOnly vacancies from open sources where the employer states pay are used.
  2. 2We normalise themA salary range is reduced to one comparable value per vacancy.
  3. 3We compute percentilesMedian, quartiles and the average are calculated from at least 5 offers; otherwise the wider country market is shown.
  4. 4We refresh the numbersStatistics are recomputed as new vacancies appear and closed ones drop out.

Figures are pay as published by employers: taxes, bonuses and seniority inside a grade are not accounted for.