How much does Microsoft pay its employees? How much can a software engineer expect as a salary from the technology conglomerate? After former Google engineer Deedy Das leaked salaries of Microsoft employees, people can also know about Microsoft’s 30-year wealth plan for its employees. The leaked salary chart reveals that Microsoft engineers at the entry level, with typical experience of up to two years, can earn $88,000 to $138,000 in total compensation. It can grow to $2,000,000 to over $5,000,000 in seven to 10 years. These figures include base salary, stock, and bonus amounts.
Microsoft salary chart leaked
Taking to the social media platform X, the whistleblower ex-employee wrote, “Microsoft just leaked their official compensation bands for engineers. We often forget that you can be a stable, high-performing engineer with great work-life balance, be a Big Tech lifer, and comfortably retire with a net worth of $15M!” It has been revealed that employees with around 18 years of experience can get an annual package of around $1 million. An employee who begins at L57, or the entry level, and reaches the top at L70 could earn over $23 million in gross income over their career. It can be concluded that they can save up to around $4.2 million and invest nearly $8.8 million. With this, a Microsoft employee could accumulate a total net worth of $13 million by the end of his career.
Microsoft base salary data (2025) in US Dollars:
Software Engineering: Up to $284,000
Applied Sciences: $127,200 to $261,103
Business Analytics: $159,300 to $191,580
Business Planning: $117,200 to $201,900
Business Program Management: $102,380 to $195,100
Cloud Network Engineering: $122,700 to $220,716
Cloud Solution Architecture: $130,000 to $207,285
Construction Project Management: $150,000 to $193,690
Customer Experience Engineering: $126,422 to $239,585
Customer Experience Program Management: $141,865 to $201,508
Customer Solutions Architecture: $122,730 to $225,000
Data Analytics: $132,385 to $205,000
Data Center Operations Management: $115,000 to $176,900
Data Engineering: $144,855 to $264,000
Data Science: $121,200 to $274,500
Demand Planning: $147,000 to $204,550
Digital Cloud Solution Architecture: $155,085 to $217,589
Electrical Engineering: $138,995 to $247,650
Financial Analysis: $91,100 to $213,800
Hardware Engineering: $136,000 to $270,641
Product Design: $125,100 to $208,058
Product Management: $122,800 to $250,000
Product Marketing: $113,350 to $213,200
Research Sciences: $146,054 to $208,000
Research, Applied and Data Sciences: $85,821 to $208,800
Service Engineering: $130,080 to $182,500
Silicon Engineering: $116,334 to $275,000
Site Reliability Engineering: $135,100 to $236,670
Software Engineering: $82,971 to $284,000
Solution Area Specialists: $144,000 to $209,300
Supply Planning: $131,300 to $193,270
Technical Program Management: $120,900 to $238,000
Technical Support Advisory: $114,290 to $153,984
Technical Support Engineering: $80,371 to $176,606
Technology Specialists: $168,800 to $200,000
X Research: $138,560 to $177,148
LinkedIn (Microsoft Subsidiary) base salary data:
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning: Up to $336,000
Manager, Software Engineering: $197,185 to $301,000
Product Manager: $141,000 to $252,000
Software Engineer: $108,826 to $205,000
Software Engineer, Machine Learning: $135,000 to $231,000
Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure: $135,000 to $231,000
Senior Software Engineer: $121,000 to $249,000
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning: $154,000 to $278,000
Senior Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure: $144,000 to $278,000
Staff Software Engineer: $158,000 to $301,000
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning: $190,486 to $336,000
Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure: $190,486 to $336,000