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About SalesEngineerSalary.com
This site is published by a specialist pre-sales recruitment team. The benchmarks come from placements we run, which is both the reason they're specific and the reason we're upfront about the commercial interest.
Why we publish it
We spend every week negotiating pre-sales offers. Employers kept asking us the same question — what does this actually cost? — so we published the answer. If you then ask us to run the search, that's how the site pays for itself. If you don't, the data is still free.
Who produces the data
| Name | Role | Background |
|---|---|---|
| [Founder name] | Managing Director, pre-sales practice | [12 years recruiting sales engineers across cybersecurity and cloud — placeholder] |
| [Research lead name] | Head of compensation research | [Former compensation analyst; owns the dataset and methodology — placeholder] |
| [Consultant name] | Principal consultant, AI/ML & data | [Specialises in AI pre-sales hiring for Series B+ vendors — placeholder] |
Editorial independence
Nobody pays to appear in these benchmarks and no figure is adjusted to suit a client's band. Where a client's offer sits below market, our own pages say so. Read the methodology for exactly how the numbers are produced.
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Methodology
Figures are medians drawn from placement records, offer letters and employer briefs across the last 12 months, expressed as 25th–75th percentile ranges. Base is fixed cash; OTE is base plus variable at 100% attainment, excluding equity. All numbers currently shown are illustrative placeholders. Read the full methodology.