# Operations salary: $150,000–$205,485 a year

Every number below comes from 1,902 tracked live operations postings. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=753 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median operations posting offers $150,000–$205,485 a year (n=753, USD).
- 49.2% of the 1,902 live operations postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $169,000–$254,100 a year — the median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- Level 4 operations roles (building AI systems) list $223,097–$363,495, vs $144,800–$200,000 at Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 14 | $80,500–$120,000 |
| Mid-level | 175 | $127,000–$174,700 |
| Senior | 330 | $146,900–$204,500 |
| Lead | 119 | $180,000–$247,050 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 330 | $150,000–$200,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 423 | $150,000–$212,750 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Level 4 — Build AI systems | 2 | $223,097–$363,495 |
| Level 1 — Work around AI | 545 | $144,800–$200,000 |

## Companies hiring operations roles

- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (94)
- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (70)
- [OpenAI](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/openai) (68)
- [Adobe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adobe) (48)
- [Airwallex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airwallex) (45)
- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (41)
- [Anthropic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anthropic) (36)
- [HelloFresh](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/hellofresh) (34)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 753 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 (1,902 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 Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.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 $169,000–$254,100 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 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 753 live US postings for operations roles with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $150,000–$205,485 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

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

49.2% of the 753 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

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

In this sample, 7 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 1,462 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/operations