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Apple salary estimate
$127,197yearly
How much does Apple pay?
The average Apple salary in the United States is $127,197 per year. Apple salaries range between $83,000 a year in the bottom 10th percentile to $194,000 in the top 90th percentile. Apple pays $61.15 an hour on average. Geographic location also impacts Apple salaries. Apple employees in Cupertino, CA get paid the most.Highest paying jobs at Apple
The highest paying jobs at Apple are project engineering manager, expert, home advisor, and team leader. Project engineering manager jobs at Apple earn an average yearly salary of $167,090, Apple expert jobs average $155,946, and Apple home advisor jobs average $154,331.
The lowest paying Apple roles include cashier and customer service representative. Apple cashier average salary is $32,770 per year. So while the average Apple salary is $127,197 there is a big variation in pay depending on the role.
Highest paying jobs at Apple
| Rank | Job title | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Project Engineering Manager | $167,090 | $80.33 |
| 2 | Expert | $155,946 | $74.97 |
| 3 | Home Advisor | $154,331 | $74.20 |
| 4 | Team Leader | $152,775 | $73.45 |
| 5 | Purchasing Manager | $152,739 | $73.43 |
| 6 | Asic Design Engineer | $152,033 | $73.09 |
| 7 | System Software Developer | $148,454 | $71.37 |
| 8 | Data Scientist | $147,478 | $70.90 |
| 9 | Software Development Engineer | $147,397 | $70.86 |
| 10 | Solutions Consultant | $142,167 | $68.35 |
| 11 | Certified Technician | $135,255 | $65.03 |
| 12 | Technical Support Advisor | $130,210 | $62.60 |
| 13 | Business Analyst | $127,963 | $61.52 |
| 14 | Demand Planner | $123,826 | $59.53 |
| 15 | Specialist | $117,095 | $56.30 |
| 16 | Finance Analyst | $112,352 | $54.02 |
| 17 | Graphic Designer | $99,520 | $47.85 |
| 18 | Technical Support Technician | $75,173 | $36.14 |
| 19 | Sales Associate | $57,151 | $27.48 |
| 20 | Campus Representative | $48,661 | $23.39 |
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Average Apple salary by state
Apple pays the highest salaries in California due to higher costs of living and competition in the state.
| Rank | State | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | $142,398 | $68.46 |
| 2 | Washington | $135,010 | $64.91 |
| 3 | Oregon | $117,663 | $56.57 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | $116,975 | $56.24 |
| 5 | New York | $116,629 | $56.07 |
| 6 | Texas | $116,145 | $55.84 |
| 7 | Colorado | $115,694 | $55.62 |
| 8 | Nevada | $115,158 | $55.36 |
| 9 | Virginia | $107,229 | $51.55 |
| 10 | Alaska | $105,927 | $50.93 |
| 11 | North Carolina | $99,767 | $47.96 |
| 12 | Iowa | $98,238 | $47.23 |
| 13 | Florida | $97,695 | $46.97 |
How much does Apple pay by location?
Highest paying Apple locations
| Rank | Location | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cupertino, CA | $144,348 | $69.40 |
| 2 | Seattle, WA | $135,542 | $65.16 |
| 3 | New York, NY | $116,682 | $56.10 |
| 4 | Austin, TX | $115,747 | $55.65 |
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Apple salaries by department
Salaries at Apple vary depending on the department you work in. Apple salaries in the business development department are the highest with an average salary of $157,134. Employees in the engineering department at Apple receive relatively high salaries as well, with an average salary of $146,806 per year. Departments that don't pay as well at Apple include the warehouse and the customer service organizational functions, with employees earning average salaries of $37,469 and $46,638, respectively.
Average Apple salary by department
| Rank | Department | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Development | $157,134 | $75.55 |
| 2 | Engineering | $146,806 | $70.58 |
| 3 | Supply Chain | $136,449 | $65.60 |
| 4 | Plant/Manufacturing | $130,018 | $62.51 |
| 5 | Art/Design | $129,976 | $62.49 |
| 6 | IT | $124,909 | $60.05 |
| 7 | Finance | $116,453 | $55.99 |
| 8 | Sales | $110,670 | $53.21 |
| 9 | Marketing | $101,224 | $48.67 |
| 10 | Retail | $61,433 | $29.54 |
| 11 | Non Profit/Government | $60,953 | $29.30 |
| 12 | Customer Service | $46,639 | $22.42 |
| 13 | Warehouse | $37,470 | $18.01 |
How much does Apple pay by department?
Best paying Apple engineering salaries
| Rank | Position | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Project Engineering Manager | $167,090 | $80.33 |
| 2 | Asic Design Engineer | $152,033 | $73.09 |
| 3 | System Software Developer | $148,454 | $71.37 |
| 4 | Data Scientist | $147,478 | $70.90 |
| 5 | Software Development Engineer | $147,397 | $70.86 |
| 6 | Database Administrator | $146,985 | $70.67 |
| 7 | Engineering Program Manager | $146,915 | $70.63 |
| 8 | Senior Java Developer | $143,524 | $69.00 |
| 9 | Technical Specialist | $127,950 | $61.51 |
| 10 | Data Analyst | $115,449 | $55.50 |
| 11 | GIS Technician | $74,919 | $36.02 |
Best paying Apple IT salaries
| Rank | Position | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Information Systems Manager | $203,934 | $98.05 |
| 2 | Project Leader | $169,132 | $81.31 |
| 3 | Information Technology Project Manager | $162,452 | $78.10 |
| 4 | Home Advisor | $154,331 | $74.20 |
| 5 | Circuit Design Engineer | $141,429 | $67.99 |
| 6 | Mobile Technician | $136,976 | $65.85 |
| 7 | Network Engineer | $134,840 | $64.83 |
| 8 | Computer Systems Analyst | $134,037 | $64.44 |
| 9 | Technical Support Advisor | $130,210 | $62.60 |
| 10 | Technical Support Technician | $75,173 | $36.14 |
| 11 | Mac Specialist | $66,440 | $31.94 |
Best paying Apple customer service salaries
| Rank | Position | Average Apple salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Technical Support Technician | $75,173 | $36.14 |
| 2 | Service Specialist | $75,159 | $36.13 |
| 3 | Mac Specialist | $66,440 | $31.94 |
| 4 | Technical Support Representative | $39,671 | $19.07 |
| 5 | Customer Advisor | $39,382 | $18.93 |
| 6 | Customer Service Representative | $34,347 | $16.51 |
| 7 | Home Agent | $34,217 | $16.45 |
Apple competitors’ average salaries
Average salaries at Apple competitors, like Meta, Microsoft, and PayPal, vary. Meta employees earn the highest salaries, with an average yearly salary of $155,739. The average salary at Microsoft is $131,100 per year, and the average salary at PayPal is $128,079 per year.
Recently added Apple salaries
| Job | Location | Date added | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Associate-Long | New York, NY | 06/29/2025 | $63,069 |
| Universal Banker | New York, NY | 06/29/2025 | $45,872 |
| Contact Center Representative Junior | Buffalo, NY | 06/29/2025 | $40,000 |
| Esci Supplier Readiness & Development Business Engagement Manager | Sunnyvale, CA | 06/28/2025 | $178,900 |
| Embedded System Software Engineer | San Diego, CA | 06/28/2025 | $115,700 |
What employees say about salary at Apple
People and culture.
Limited opportunities for growth. Reason I left.
Employee benefits.
Diversity, benefits, product quality, customer focus
Poor opportunities for advancement; hiring freeze; part-time worker status means reduced benefits.
Wide range of benefits
Great healthcare and other similar benefits, fairly good job security.
No opportunities to grow and develop within the company
stock options
Benefits and salary are amazing.
If you don’t drink the Apple juice, you won’t move up quickly, if at all.
Hourly pay is unbeatable and health benefits are the best around.
Employee discounts
Disappointed and frustrated and very disheartened and very disrespectful to people of color
Employee discounts
Benefits - healthcare, stock, time off, others
Lack it transparency, limitations of remote jobs
Healthcare
Innovative projects with very intelligent people.
Inefficiencies and complacency that comes with huge company.
Remote work, flexible hours, autonomy
Flexibility, work life balance is perfect, large team, work load is not bad.
Travelling, remote positions are going away.
Work lifer balance, take it easy pace of work.
The hype is real
Had it's moments, all normal
Learned a lot that opened many opportunities
Team work
Under estimate my commitment
Happy people to work with as a team. And health insurance
Work culture and environment is conducive to personal and professional growth
Long commute time
Paid time off, health insurance benefits
The benefits. Vacation time.
Leadership and the lack of care for their employees
Great team, job responsibilities benefits
Work environment
Health, stock plan
You work a high level of detail to final product
big company vibes and the downside that come with that.
Comprehensive medical access
Money and being able to say i worked at apple
Too much work and the management there was awful and I wasn't happy to work there anymore
Get free devices and retirement plans and also would pay for our vacation
Insurance, benefits, PTO, stock options, 401k and how the company handled covid
Hypocrisy in telling employees to always "assume positive intent."
Insurance
Fun and challenging
Hard to get shifts swapped and covered if higher role
Health and school benefit
Great people, great products, and well compensated
As innovative as the products are, it can be frustrating how bureaucratic it can be. But at it's size, it's impossible to avoid.
RSUs and fantastic health benefits.
Always learning, good pay.
No community, endless tasks, little job satisfaction.
Being in contact with what the future may hold. Leading the culture with new inventions
Diverse group of people, challenging work, flexible hours, great benefits.
Slow mobility up the work latter.
Employee Stock plan.
nice people
no time for free time activities
They hire GREAT coworkers (friends) and they give you training that goes beyond just Apple
Retail hours are a bummer
Working with amazingly talented, funny, and empathetic coworkers
The benefits are great!
Micro managed, call center, the culture is not fun like they advertise, they don’t like when you talk to others if it’s not work repeated, low raises.
The stock purchasing program for employees and health benefits
Great environment to grow and learn
Too political in promotional process
Gym reimburse, stock plan
Remote, at home. Great training, ability to move up
Love it, just cannot become permanent, everything doesn’t fix every problem, somethings you cannot help customers with due to company policies then when you get a bad survey it still fall on you, no matter how hard you tried.
Convenience of being home, see my family, full time hours, benefits, equipment provided, only needed high speed data.
The culture of the company is progressive, which correlates with my values. They always take care of their employees and have taken care of all of us during the covid-19 pandemic.
N/A
healthcare, 401K, ESPP
Culture, benefits, and growth opportunities.
Retail hours and being on my feet all day.
Part-time health benefits
Good benefits
Retail environment. For a trillion dollar company retail employees make very little money
stock options
Lots of good work experiences for growth and cool products
No work/life balance.
Working close to home
Very positive environment
Sometimes the positivity can be overwhelming
Great discounts
The culture was nice and pay was good.
The HR didn't really care about me.
The pay
Coworkers
Can be burnt out easily when store is full.
Coworkers and very good benefits package.
I liked working with the customers because they were so nice and I was in a leader position
The staff was really rude I was the nicest person there in the I.T. department
I like free lunches because my food stamps can't buy hot food with being a single mom I need to save food stamps for my kids food
I love the company culture and how Apple takes care of their employees.
N/A
My favorite perk about working at Apple was the plethora of discounts on Apple products and at other retailers.
the majority of the people you work with are awesome people. you learn valuable skills and attributes to help you in the rest of your life.
management is a joke and does nothing to help their employees and retail hours get old after a while unless you dont mind that. The pay isnt that great at the end of the day it is retail. They try to cove it with benefits which i can't lie are pretty great but they dont pay the bills.
employee stock purchase plan
The people, the products, the benefits.
It gets crazy during the holidays, blackout periods make it difficult to be with family.
Employee discounts.
It felt like a truly collaborative effort between all teams at the retail location. My location didn't harp on overall numbers but just gave us focus areas and remained very change-adaptive.
I don't really have anything negative to say. It can be kind of stressful dealing with the volume of people but that's retail and the store stays staffed well enough to handle it.
The Employee Purchase Plan+, which gives you a substantial discount on a major device once every three years on top of the regular employee discount. Friends and Family discounts are also super nice because you don't have to sneak around to let someone use your discount.
Working is flexible and you can come and go any time
Less learning opportunities
Gym membership
My favorite thing about working for Apple are their benefits; Apple has Great benefits! The benefits are simply unmatched.
If I had to choose an area of improvement, it would be compensation. As an Apple advisor we are tasked to provide world class customer service through technical support all while maintaining high customer satisfaction and issue resolution scores. I do not feel that the compensation levels reflect the quality of work.
My favorite thing about working for Apple are their benefits; Apple has Great benefits! The benefits are simply unmatched.
Technical challenges, interacting with highly talented people.
No work life balance, poor leadership.
Great pay and health insurance.
Flexible hours good pay
Nothing
Discounts
The atmosphere
We have no time to improve ourself.
Having the opportunity to travel
The Company truly cares about creating the most innovative and sleek product for the consumer. The customer experience is everything. Employees have a great work ethic and care about what's core to Apple.
No free food.
Discounted products.
True to core values
Limited growth opportunity within Retail environment
Pay/benefits
I like Enginnering related positions
I dont see myself in marketing postions
Healthcare sign in bonus
Lots of people who take their job seriously and really care.
Occasional long hours
Employee Discount
To be specific I work in an Apple Retail Store. That's why I am giving my review a 3- star rating, because I don't have experience working for corporate. I like that you are paid well for the work that you do, and that the benefits are very nice. Definitely better than any other retail job I have had so far. The people that work there are nice they are real reason I stay.
I don't like the culture, or what has become of the companies culture. When I first started working their 4 years ago, the culture felt less gimmicky and more genuine to both employees and customers. I don't like the people who are hired to be managers. The company needs to change how it hires managers because the quality of management has dropped quickly. It feels as if they think of themselves as being better and they don't try to improve the work place only for their own self gain. The company culture as whole can be very arrogant in general which can be very frustrating for employees and customers alike. The inner company bureaucracy can also make it difficult to gain access to your benefits.
My favorite benefit has been the student reimbursement. I can get up to $5,250 a year for school. It has been very helpful for paying off my student loans.
I was able to work from home as an AppleCare Customer Service Tech. They provided 4 weeks of paid training but at a lower rate. We were provided a once a year allowance on apple products plus a discount for anytime use.
I was promised many different amounts of bonus money and none was ever delivered. We were pumped up by superviosrs to do better and who ever got the highest numbers would win a tv, ipod, money, itunes cards, etc. Funny thing is nobody on our teams ever knew of anyone who had won these.
Discount on apple products and yearly allowance of $500 on any apple product.
The benefits are incredible - better than any benefits I've had for any company in my career. There's a host of other incentives, such as great family leave time, 401k and stock programs.
I worked Apple retail, so it's hectic and the hours are tough. The pay is the worst part of working here - despite the excellent benefits, you just can't afford to work there for too long.
The incredible full-time health benefits. Covered more than any other company I've ever worked for.
The only part of working for Apple I enjoy, is that I work from home. They offer a lot of overtime too. So when I need extra income it's always available for me to work.
They have the worst communication system I have ever seen! The pay is not good compared to the responsibilities you're expected to handle. The managers are unprofessional and if you complain you're retaliated against.
I have given $500 free annually toward any new apple product I want.
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