Card payments salary: $170K median
The median advertised Card payments salary is $170K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $124K to $215K: counted from 297 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $82 an hour or $14,167 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $274K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Card payments jobs
$170Kmedian advertised salary
$124K – $215Kmiddle half of roles
$179Kaverage advertised salary
297roles counted
Card payments salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $229K, 35% more than senior roles ($170K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $170K | $115K–$200K | 59 |
| Lead and above | $229K | $199K–$279K | 81 |
| No level in the title | $156K | $98K–$188K | 155 |
Card payments salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $210K | 64 |
| 🇺🇸California | $200K | 75 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $177K | 76 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $175K | 266 |
Skills that pay more for Card payments roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rails | $200K | +$30K | 34 |
| AWS | $188K | +$18K | 39 |
| Reconciliations | $180K | +$10K | 71 |
| Regulatory compliance | $175K | +$5K | 29 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 3 |
| Coinbase | $246K | 6 |
| Metropolis | $245K | 3 |
| Brex | $227K | 12 |
| Affirm | $215K | 5 |
| Finvari | $212K | 3 |
| Elastic | $212K | 4 |
| Adyen | $200K | 12 |
| Mercury | $196K | 4 |
| Airwallex | $192K | 16 |
| Very Good Security | $190K | 10 |
| Coast | $179K | 14 |
| Riskified | $172K | 5 |
| Block | $161K | 24 |
| Chime | $158K | 3 |
| NAB NorthAB | $150K | 15 |
| Lithic | $149K | 12 |
| xAI | $138K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $136K | 3 |
| Toast | $128K | 3 |
| Raisin | $110K | 3 |
| Velera | $103K | 8 |
| Rectangle Health | $102K | 3 |
| Pathward, N.A. | $96K | 7 |
| Gravity Payments | $95K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Card payments roles
All Card payments jobs- SMB Account ExecutiveRectangle Health · 🇺🇸St. Petersburg, Florida$300K - $600KPipeline managementCard paymentsCRM
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Billing PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$405K - $485KLead and aboveCPQReconciliationsMonth-end close
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Payment FraudAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLead and abovePythonSQLRails
- Head of Engineering, Payments PlatformAirwallex · 🇸🇬SG - Singapore$385K - $460KLead and aboveReconciliationsCard payments
- Director of Engineering, PaymentsPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KHybridLead and abovePCI DSSReconciliationsCard payments
- Strategic Account Executive - Financial ServicesElastic · 🇺🇸Arizona, United States$142K - $415KElasticsearchContract negotiationCard payments
- Strategic Account Executive - Financial ServicesElastic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$142K - $415KElasticsearchContract negotiationCard payments
- Engineering Director, Payments PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$237K - $407KHybridLead and aboveReconciliationsCard payments
- Staff Software Engineer, Financial Platform - IssuingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$264K - $395KLead and aboveIncident responseReconciliationsCard payments
- Staff Software Engineer, Financial Platform - IssuingBlock · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA, United States of America$264K - $395KLead and aboveIncident responseReconciliationsCard payments
- Sales Director, PaymentsFireblocks · 🇺🇸New York$280K - $390KLead and aboveRailsCard paymentsTreasury
- Sales Director, PaymentsFireblocks · 🇺🇸New York$280K - $390KLead and aboveRailsCard paymentsTreasury
- Senior Director, Product Management (Financial Platforms)Affirm · 🇺🇸Remote US$340K - $375KRemoteLead and aboveRailsReconciliationsCard payments
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Commerce PlatformSuno · 🇺🇸NYC$229K - $364KLead and aboveReconciliationsCard paymentsFraud prevention
- Staff Software Engineer, Bots + FraudSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$277K - $364KLead and abovePostgreSQLRedisKubernetes
- Sr Manager, Infrastructure SalesCoinbase · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$294K - $346KRemoteSeniorRailsGenerative AICard payments
- Principal Software Engineer, OrchestrationRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Senior Director of Engineering, Billing PlatformCloudflare · Hybrid$273K - $341KHybridLead and aboveData warehousingDNSIncident response
- Executive Director, Digital EnablementVaxcyte · 🇺🇸US - Remote$288K - $335KRemoteLead and aboveGenerative AIPerformance marketingMarketing automation
- Account Executive - PaymentsPlaid · 🇺🇸San Francisco HQ$310K - $330KHybridRailsSolution sellingProduct marketing
Questions about Card payments pay
- What is the average Card payments salary?
- $179K a year on average and $170K at the median, across 297 open Card payments postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $124K to $215K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Card payments pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), Coinbase ($246K), Metropolis ($245K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a card payments a high-paying job?
- The median Card payments posting advertises $170K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 2% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a card payments?
- A tenth of the postings offer $274K a year or more; the highest open Card payments role advertises up to $600K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Card payments salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $170K a year is about $82 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,167 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $60 to $103 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Card payments roles?
- Postings that ask for Rails (+$30K, 34 postings), AWS (+$18K, 39 postings), Reconciliations (+$10K, 71 postings) advertise more than the $170K median of all Card payments postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Card payments roles at companies is $170K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $124K to $215K. Counted from 297 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/card-payments/
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