# Account executive salary: $160,000–$210,000 a year

Every number below comes from 2,365 tracked live postings whose title matches "account executive". No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=749 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median account executive posting offers $160,000–$210,000 a year (n=749).
- 43.8% of the 2,365 live postings matching "account executive" are remote.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Junior | 1 | $60,008–$60,008 |
| Mid-level | 99 | $130,000–$160,000 |
| Senior | 271 | $200,000–$237,000 |
| Lead | 10 | $218,500–$278,100 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 433 | $175,000–$220,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 316 | $150,000–$189,350 |

## Companies hiring account executives

- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (431)
- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (80)
- [Zscaler](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/zscaler) (80)
- [Cloudflare](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/cloudflare) (78)
- [Databricks](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/databricks) (73)
- [MongoDB](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/mongodb) (66)
- [Datadog](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/datadog) (65)
- [Block](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/block) (54)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "account executive", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 749 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: postings at tech companies tracked by Level. Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

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

## Account executive salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median account executive salary?**

Across 749 live US postings for account executives with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $160,000–$210,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many account executives jobs are remote?**

43.8% of the 749 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

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

In this sample, 0 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 1,996 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/role/account-executive