# Finance salary: $155,900–$210,500 a year

Every number below comes from 768 tracked live finance postings. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=364 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median finance posting offers $155,900–$210,500 a year (n=364, USD).
- 51.2% of the 768 live finance postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $166,125–$251,500 a year — the median alone hides how wide that spread is.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 1 | $83,000–$92,000 |
| Junior | 5 | $117,520–$146,900 |
| Mid-level | 62 | $131,500–$170,000 |
| Senior | 196 | $140,000–$197,500 |
| Lead | 52 | $190,000–$250,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 187 | $160,000–$200,900 |
| On-site / hybrid | 177 | $154,000–$220,000 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Level 4 — Build AI systems | 0 | not enough data |
| Level 1 — Work around AI | 301 | $159,800–$210,000 |

## Companies hiring finance roles

- [Anthropic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anthropic) (25)
- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (24)
- [Adobe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adobe) (21)
- [Airwallex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airwallex) (20)
- [Coinbase](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/coinbase) (20)
- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (18)
- [CoreWeave](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/coreweave) (17)
- [OpenAI](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/openai) (16)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 364 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page — below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: finance postings at tech companies tracked by Level (768 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000) — mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $166,125–$251,500 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Finance salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median finance salary?**

Across 364 live US postings for finance roles with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $155,900–$210,500 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many finance roles jobs are remote?**

51.2% of the 364 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 1 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 651 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/finance