Demand planning salary: $158K median
The median advertised Demand planning salary is $158K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $126K to $212K: counted from 235 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $76 an hour or $13,125 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $262K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Demand planning jobs
$158Kmedian advertised salary
$126K – $212Kmiddle half of roles
$174Kaverage advertised salary
235roles counted
Demand planning salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $218K, 29% more than senior roles ($168K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $168K | $134K–$194K | 63 |
| Lead and above | $218K | $182K–$256K | 61 |
| No level in the title | $136K | $118K–$165K | 110 |
Demand planning salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $218K | 52 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $192K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸California | $170K | 128 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $157K | 220 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $118K | 23 |
Skills that pay more for Demand planning roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | $180K | +$22K | 29 |
| Pipeline management | $172K | +$14K | 33 |
| APICS | $166K | +$8K | 26 |
| SAP | $160K | +$2K | 31 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 5 |
| OpenAI | $293K | 7 |
| Waymo | $252K | 4 |
| Lambda | $231K | 3 |
| Confido | $212K | 10 |
| Skydio | $204K | 3 |
| Pure Storage | $191K | 3 |
| Crusoe | $178K | 9 |
| SharkNinja | $163K | 4 |
| Whoop | $162K | 4 |
| Oura | $156K | 6 |
| Summit Therapeutics | $151K | 3 |
| Hims & Hers | $150K | 3 |
| Kinder's | $144K | 8 |
| Anduril Industries | $142K | 43 |
| Industrial Electric Manufacturing | $142K | 5 |
| Icarus | $120K | 3 |
| Mammoth Brands | $120K | 4 |
| Braze | $118K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $116K | 20 |
| LG Electronics | $103K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Demand planning roles
All Demand planning jobs- Capacity Systems Software EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Technical Program Manager, Model Deployment & CapacityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$207K - $445KPipeline managementDemand planning
- Technical Program Manager, InferenceAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$290K - $435KLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Head of Insights & AnalyticsTango Therapeutics · 🇺🇸Boston, MA$275K - $413KLead and aboveProduct marketingDemand planningClinical trials
- AI Infrastructure Operations, Demand PlanningAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $405KPythonSQLAI
- VP, eCommerce Pure Players, AmericasSharkNinja · 🇺🇸United States$255K - $360KLead and aboveExcelAgilePower BI
- Senior Director, Analytics & Data ScienceCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$310K - $355KLead and abovePythonSQLGCP
- Director of Engineering, ComputeTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$214K - $352KRemoteLead and aboveGCPKubernetesAWS
- Head of Production, Compute & CommsAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$261K - $346KLead and aboveExcelComputer VisionSecurity clearance
- Staff Software Engineer, ProductConfido · 🇺🇸NYC Office$300K - $330KLead and aboveAccounts receivableCNC machiningDemand planning
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Forecasting & ScenariosReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningAITime series
- Head of Growth - AI NetworkSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)$225K - $310KHybridLead and aboveLLM evaluationPerformance marketingDemand planning
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Forecasting & ScenariosReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$217K - $303KRemoteSeniorMachine LearningAITime series
- Vice President, Supply ChainArmada · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$240K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveData centersContract negotiationInventory management
- General CounselLegion · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$250K - $300KRemoteMachine LearningSAPWorkday
- Principal Product Manager, Agentic AILegion · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$280K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveLLMAIAI agents
- Senior Applied AI/ML EngineerConfido · 🇺🇸NYC Office$250K - $300KSeniorLLMAIRAG
- Senior Product Manager, New Platform Discovery and ValidationWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA$241K - $297KSeniorLLM evaluationFirmwareHardware testing
- Director / Senior Director, External Manufacturing OperationsImmunome, Inc. · 🇺🇸Bothell, Washington, United States$200K - $295KLead and aboveDemand planningGMPRisk management
- Head of LogisticsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA$238K - $294KLead and aboveNetwork engineeringERPInternal controls
Questions about Demand planning pay
- What is the average Demand planning salary?
- $174K a year on average and $158K at the median, across 235 open Demand planning 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 $126K to $212K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Demand planning pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), OpenAI ($293K), Waymo ($252K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a demand planning a high-paying job?
- The median Demand planning posting advertises $158K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 9% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a demand planning?
- A tenth of the postings offer $262K a year or more; the highest open Demand planning role advertises up to $445K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Demand planning salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $158K a year is about $76 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,125 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $60 to $102 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Demand planning roles?
- Postings that ask for Python (+$22K, 29 postings), Pipeline management (+$14K, 33 postings), APICS (+$8K, 26 postings) advertise more than the $158K median of all Demand planning 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 Demand planning roles at companies is $158K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $126K to $212K. Counted from 235 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/demand-planning/
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