The 2018 Hacker Report | HackerOne

We are in the age of the hacker. Never before has there been more opportunities to learn, more tools, more welcoming companies and more money up for grabs. At the end of last year, we tapped into our community of ethical hackers to better understand how they like to work, what’s most important to them and what needs to change. Today, we are excited to share The Hacker Report, the largest survey ever conducted of the ethical hacking community with 1,698 respondents.

Hackers are a vital component of the Internet’s immune system. Without them, we would be seeing far more breaches than we see now. With them, we’re all better off. The full report is available here and includes a dossier showcasing the charitable, curious, communal nature of the hacker community.

In the meantime, here are a few key findings:

Visualization of the Bounties by Geography showing on the left where the companies paying bounties are located and on the right where hackers receiving bounties are located. Special credit to Allen Householder for inspiring this graph.

Median annual wage of a “software engineer” was derived from PayScale for each region. The multiplier was found by dividing the upper range of bounty earners on HackerOne for the region by the median annual wage of a software engineer for the related region.

Thank you to all our hackers for consistently defending sensitive data on the Internet, and thank you to all those that contributed to our 2017 Hacker Survey. Security wouldn’t be possible without you. Together we hit harder!

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