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FDE salary at later-stage private companies

Read the Later private company-stage label and compare current FDE postings by scope, level, location, and equity terms.

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Current salary ranges

729 jobs · 624 salary ranges

Median salary in this group

$216,000a year

The middle half is $185,000$243,000, across 624 jobs from 164 companies.

Calculated from the midpoint of each salary range. Sources and method →

What the Later private label means

Nextmove uses Later private for private companies at Series D or later. This identifies the company-stage band. It does not mean that every role has the same scope, level, location, or equity terms. The group can include customer-facing implementation, production engineering, internal deployment, and other work that Nextmove reads as FDE or related work.

Browse the later-stage private jobs to inspect the roles and their stated terms. Employers, role mix, locations, levels, and disclosure practices differ across stage groups. Use the salary comparison to find postings to investigate, not as a promise for a particular role.

What to confirm with an employer

Ask which level and location the salary range covers and whether the figures include a target incentive. If equity is part of the package, ask about the grant type, vesting, exercise or settlement terms, and valuation assumptions. For the job itself, confirm how much time goes to customer delivery, production ownership, travel, and work that feeds back into the product. The title alone cannot answer those questions.

Compare with Early (pre-seed–Series A) FDE salary, Growth (Series B–C) FDE salary, and Public company FDE salary. The US FDE salary overview provides the shared definitions and other comparisons.

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