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Illumio Salary

Illumio Salary

Illumio pays a median of $185K ($154K–$216K) across 50 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $154K–$216K salary range

Median: $185K  ·  Based on 50 public Illumio job postings  ·  Updated October 8, 2026


This Illumio salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Illumio · pay benchmark · updated October 8, 2026
$185K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$154K–$216K
Typical range
$340K view JD
Highest base · Vice President, Corporate Controller
50
Open roles
~5 yrs
Typical exp.
+14
39 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 8% of roles mention equity
IC salary by seniority
Senior
$185K (20)
Staff
$216K (9)
Salary by department · median & top base
engineering
$185K · $325K top (31)
product management
$173K · $325K top (5)
Highest-paying skills
CI/CD $216KPython $213KJava $211KSQL $200KGo $185KAWS $185KGCP $185KAzure $185K

Highest-paying open roles at Illumio

Illumio salary by department

  • engineering: $185K median · $325K top base — Director of Engineering - Insights (view JD) (31 roles)
  • product management: $173K median · $325K top base — Director, Product Management (view JD) (5 roles)

Illumio engineering & product salary by seniority

  • Senior: $185K median · $225K top base — Sr. Machine Learning Engineer (view JD) (20)
  • Staff: $216K median · $278K top base — Sr. Staff Engineer (view JD) (9)

Illumio salary by location

  • Remote: $149K median · $162K top base — Sr. HRIS Applications Analyst - Workday (view JD) (3 roles)

Remote work at Illumio

6% of Illumio's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $179K median vs $185K onsite.

What Illumio looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Go (25) · Terraform (19) · SQL (16) · AWS (12) · Azure (12) · GCP (9) · CI/CD (9) · Kubernetes (8) · Python (7) · Java (5).

Benefits & perks at Illumio

Commonly listed: dental (1) · vision (1) · 401k (1) · pto (1) · parental (1) · gym (1).

About Illumio

Illumio is Series F stage · 501–1,000 employees · founded 2013 · HQ Sunnyvale, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Illumio

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 12+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 10 that do, Bachelor's and Master's and PhD are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 8% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Illumio total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 100% include commission. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Illumio hiring activity

Illumio has 50 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 50 public job postings with disclosed pay. 14 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (39 in the last 90).

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Chainguard$171K↓ -8%Series D
Tanium$175K↓ -6%Series G
Datadog$152K↓ -18%Public
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Elastic$193K↑ +4%Public

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Common questions

What does Illumio pay?
The median pay is $185K, with a typical range of $154K–$216K, based on 50 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Illumio?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Vice President, Corporate Controller, at $283K–$340K base.

Which team pays the most at Illumio?
The engineering team, at a $185K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 50 public Illumio job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed October 8, 2026.

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