While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $312,000 and as low as $62,500, the majority of Linux Kernel Developer salaries currently range between $123,500 (25th percentile) to $179,500 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $312,000 annually across the United States.

What is the salary of kernel?

Average salary of an employee who knows Kernel Programming is ₹21.9lakhs. Employees who knows Kernel Programming earn an average of ₹21.9lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹10.0lakhs to ₹41.8lakhs based on 64 profiles.

How many Linux kernel developers are there?

Roughly 15,600 developers from more than 1,400 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005, when the adoption of Git made detailed tracking possible, according to the 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report released at the Linux Kernel Summit in Prague.