SSO salary: what jobs that ask for it advertise
Postings that list SSO advertise a median $196,000 (362 paid postings from 248 employers), against $167,500 for other postings that list skills.
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By Justin KullaLast updated
SSO pay range
From 362 paid postings from 248 employers that list it. Annual, in US dollars.
- Lower quarter
- $150,500
- Median
- $196,000
- Upper quarter
- $233,000
- Median without it
- $167,500
- Raw gap: +17.1%. This includes the seniority and field of the roles that list the skill.
- Gap with function, level and industry matched: not shown, because too few postings sit in cells that have both listing and non-listing postings.
Where SSO is asked for
The functions with the most postings that list it.
Other skills that pay well in Engineering
Skills with the highest median pay in the same function.
Questions about this data
- How much do jobs that ask for SSO pay?
- $150,500 to $233,000 for the middle half, median $196,000, from 362 paid postings from 248 employers. Other postings that list skills advertise a median $167,500.
- Does SSO increase pay?
- Postings that list SSO advertise +17.1% against other postings, but there are too few matching postings to compare like with like, so we do not state a matched figure.
- Which jobs list SSO most?
- Engineering (179 postings), Security (77 postings), Sales (33 postings).
Method, download and how to cite
Data as of November 3, 2026. Rebuilt daily.
Pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posted (or stated in the posting text), converted to a year, on live U.S. professional jobs. It is advertised pay, not what anyone is paid.
A “gap, job mix matched” compares postings inside cells of the same function, level and industry, so a group is not credited for simply holding more senior or better-paid roles. It needs 150 or more postings across at least 5 cells with 15 postings on each side, and is shown as n/a otherwise. A gap is a difference in advertised pay between postings. It does not show that a skill, an industry or an employer size causes higher pay.
Download the CSV (aggregates only; no posting, employer or person is in it). Cite as: NextChapter, “Advertised pay in U.S. job postings that list SSO”, data as of November 3, 2026, https://launchyournextchapter.com/resources/pay-data/skills/sso
See also the AI skills salary premium, which uses the same method for AI skills only, and the salary by job title pages.
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