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Instacart salaries

What Instacart publishes in its job posts: the median, the range, and how pay differs by role, AI level and country. Only salaries from live posts, nothing self-reported.

$207k median · $159k to $238k middle half · 50 job posts with a salary

Updated Nov 5, 2026

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Salary by role at Instacart

In USD a year. Range is the middle half of posts from 5 posts, and lowest to highest below that. A row appears from 3 posts.

Published salary at Instacart by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering11$236k$203k to $236k
Sales9$71k$71k to $111k
Data4$213k$213k to $283k
Operations4$209k$157k to $299k
Legal3$238k$238k

Salary by AI level at Instacart

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. In USD a year.

Published salary at Instacart by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●5$213k$213k to $236k
Works on AI ●●●○5$209k$205k to $255k
Little AI ●○○○38$195k$154k to $236k

Salary by country at Instacart

Posts published in USD, grouped by the country of the job.

Published salary at Instacart by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States48$211k$163k to $238k

Other currencies and hourly pay

Shown apart. Amounts are never converted between currencies or between hourly and annual.

  • CAD: 27 job posts, median CAD 173k, CAD 164k to CAD 204k a year.
  • Hourly in USD: 5 job posts, median $22/hr.

Instacart job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 83. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 83 job posts at Instacart with a published salary, read from the live job posts themselves. Each post counts once, at the midpoint of its listed range. Hourly rates are shown apart from annual pay, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out. Currencies are never converted or mixed. No surveys, no self-reported figures. Updated Nov 5, 2026.

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Instacart salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Instacart pay?

Instacart job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $207k. The middle half of those posts range from $159k to $238k. That is 50 job posts, as of Nov 5, 2026.

Which roles at Instacart list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Legal has the highest median at $238k, from 3 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Instacart change with how much AI the job involves?

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. Median published salaries by level at Instacart: Builds AI $213k, Works on AI $209k, Little AI $195k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Instacart salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Instacart that list a salary, nothing else. Level takes the midpoint of each listed range, then reports the median and the middle half of posts once there are at least 3. Amounts are never converted between currencies, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out.

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