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Plaid salaries

What Plaid 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.

$216k median · $178k to $253k middle half · 126 job posts with a salary

Updated Oct 24, 2026

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Salary by role at Plaid

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 Plaid by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering29$227k$202k to $241k
Sales23$260k$191k to $310k
Data11$272k$221k to $272k
Product10$227k$227k to $250k
Operations9$163k$140k to $200k
Security5$185k$185k to $216k
Marketing5$181k$181k to $197k
Finance5$166k$151k to $166k

Salary by AI level at Plaid

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

Published salary at Plaid by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●6$272k$272k to $273k
Works on AI ●●●○15$227k$209k to $255k
Uses AI ●●○○5$186k$185k to $203k
Little AI ●○○○100$202k$169k to $241k

Salary by country at Plaid

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

Published salary at Plaid by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States126$216k$178k to $253k

Other currencies and hourly pay

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

  • GBP: 4 job posts, median £114k, £75k to £181k a year.
  • EUR: 1 job post with a salary, too few for a figure (3 are needed).

Plaid job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 131. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 131 job posts at Plaid 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 Oct 24, 2026.

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Plaid salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Plaid pay?

Plaid job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $216k. The middle half of those posts range from $178k to $253k. That is 126 job posts, as of Oct 24, 2026.

Which roles at Plaid list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Data has the highest median at $272k, from 11 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Plaid 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 Plaid: Builds AI $272k, Works on AI $227k, Uses AI $186k, Little AI $202k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Plaid salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Plaid 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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