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Demand is high and growing. IAM Engineer hiring in the US is concentrated in San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Seattle, with steady demand from security and compliance teams formalizing identity governance as a dedicated discipline through 2025 into 2026. Okta and Microsoft are among the more consistent hirers.
This site's US take-home baseline models federal income tax (10%-37% brackets, 2026) and FICA (6.2% Social Security to the $184,500 wage base, 1.45% Medicare) only. State tax is not included by default: it ranges from 0% in Texas and Washington to over 13% in California, plus New York City's own local tax on top of New York state tax, so real take-home varies a lot by where you're based.