What technical jobs pay the most?

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For many workers, landing a job at a tech company means earning a sizable salary and enjoying over-the-top perks, like nap rooms, free snacks, even ski trips and happy hours. 

And they’re not wrong. It’s a reputation befitting the industry that is the most represented on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and pays its average global worker $135,000 a year, according to a study by Hired.com, which analyzed data from more than 69,000 job seekers.

Not all tech jobs come with such large salaries, but there are a few key roles that pull that average up, offering annual pay as high as $163,000 a year.

Glassdoor analyzed more than 71,000 open job listings at tech companies that require knowledge of code, software or data and found that though software engineers and software development engineers were the roles most sought-after by employers — meaning they had the most vacant positions — they were not the most financially rewarding.

Instead, the following 10 roles pay tech workers the most for their skills:

Average salary for open roles on Glassdoor: $131,300

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