# Operations salary: $117,000–$165,000 a year

Every number below comes from 11,318 tracked live operations postings. No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=3,586 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median operations posting offers $117,000–$165,000 a year (n=3,586, USD).
- 13.7% of the 11,318 live operations postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $136,500–$201,200 a year. The median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- Builds AI (AI Level 4) operations roles list $169,800–$230,000, vs $115,600–$161,700 at Little AI (AI Level 1).

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 15 | $80,200–$80,200 |
| Junior | 57 | $66,000–$87,600 |
| Mid-level | 1,309 | $91,000–$136,500 |
| Senior | 1,555 | $130,000–$181,400 |
| Lead | 343 | $150,000–$209,000 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 555 | $140,000–$188,500 |
| On-site / hybrid | 3,031 | $115,600–$161,700 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Builds AI (AI Level 4) | 15 | $169,800–$230,000 |
| Little AI (AI Level 1) | 3,113 | $115,600–$161,700 |

## Companies hiring operations roles

- [Amazon](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/amazon) (3088)
- [Anduril Industries](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anduril-industries) (219)
- [SpaceX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/spacex) (214)
- [Airbus](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airbus) (178)
- [CMA CGM](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/cma-cgm) (178)
- [PwC](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/pwc) (166)
- [Thales](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/thales) (150)
- [ABB](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/abb) (140)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 3,586 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: operations postings at tech companies tracked by Level (11,318 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 Do not cite as a national average.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 $136,500–$201,200 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured November 2026. Small-n slices move a lot. Read the n column first.

## Operations salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median operations salary?**

Across 3,586 live US postings for operations roles with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $117,000–$165,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

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

13.7% of the 3,586 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

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

In this sample, 34 postings build AI and 10,190 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

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

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/operations. Measured November 2026.

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