Helmsman salary: October 2026
Median pay for Helmsman: $1,300 per month, counted from 55 vacancies over the last 90 days. Half of the offers sit at one figure: $1,300. Updated 03/10/2026.
Pay in 55 of the 55 postings is stated in a local currency; the figure above is the US dollar equivalent at the rate current when the posting was collected.
- Median, lower bound
- $1,300
- Half of the offers
- $1,300
- Vacancies over 90 days
- 55
How this is counted
Source: postings shown on the platform over the last 90 days, dated by the last time each was seen; external postings are included and shown with their source.
Only monthly rates are counted: 28,374 postings out of 37,174. Day rates (685) and postings whose period stayed unknown (7,186) are left out.
In 12,764 of the counted postings the source did not state the period and the platform set it to monthly from the size of the rate: no day rate on this market runs that high. The threshold depends on the currency, for the US dollar it is $1,000 per month.
Amounts are converted to US dollars at the rate current when the posting was collected: the platform keeps no history of daily rates.
The figures are a median and the 25th and 75th percentiles, not an average: a single inflated posting moves an average and barely moves a median.
Groups below 20 vacancies are not published, and a vessel-type row starts at 10. Rates outside $200 and $40,000 per month are treated as source errors and left out.
Vacancies with negotiable pay are left out of the count: 2,276 of them in the window.
Updated 03/10/2026, window from 05/07/2026 to 03/10/2026.
Questions and answers
What is the salary range for a Helmsman?
Half of the offers sit at one figure: $1,300 per month, which is also the median.
How many Helmsman vacancies were there over 90 days?
55 vacancies with a monthly rate. Updated 03/10/2026.