Full-stack Engineer salary in Boston.
Live salary data from Adzuna, calibrated against Hustle Report member submissions. Updated daily.
The 25 / 50 / 75 percentile band.
25th percentile
$70,000
Median (50th)
$91,500
Calibrated estimate
75th percentile
$120,500
Percentiles describe a snapshot of advertised salaries. Real take-home depends on tax band, pension contributions and bonuses. Hustle Report members can plug their actual numbers into the in-app calculator for a precise picture.
Full-stack Engineer market in Boston.
Full-stack engineering remains the most-hired engineering archetype globally. Premium pay flows to engineers who can own a feature end-to-end (data model → API → frontend → analytics) without handoffs. Side hustle pricing is per-feature: typical greenfield-startup feature builds run £4,000-£12,000.
Boston specifically: Boston is the densest biotech and academic-spinout market in the US, with a strong supporting tech and finance scene. Salaries sit ~10% below NYC for general tech roles but match or exceed for life sciences and research.
Members in this role typically add $10,200/year.
Modeled on a conservative 4 hours/week of contract work at the role's implied hourly equivalent ($51/hr). The Hustle Report Monday editorial finds the briefs and ranks them by fit so the time stays small.
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