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Payments Engineer salary: $212K median

The median advertised Payments Engineer salary is $212K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $193K to $250K: counted from 64 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $102 an hour or $17,646 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $310K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$212Kmedian advertised salary
$193K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$226Kaverage advertised salary
64roles counted

Payments Engineer salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $240K, 16% more than senior roles ($207K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$207K$193K–$215K21
Lead and above$240K$214K–$295K24
No level in the title$192K$156K–$250K19

Payments Engineer salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$235K32
🇺🇸California$230K30
🇺🇸United States$212K63

Skills that pay more for Payments Engineer roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Kotlin$247K+$36K6
SQL$241K+$30K10
Incident response$240K+$28K8
Reconciliations$238K+$26K19
Data modeling$232K+$20K11

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Anthropic$402K3
Block$330K3
Crusoe$238K3
Commure$182K4
Coinbase$166K3

Highest-paying open Payments Engineer roles

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Questions about Payments Engineer pay

What is the average Payments Engineer salary?
$226K a year on average and $212K at the median, across 64 open Payments Engineer 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 $193K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Payments Engineer pay?
Anthropic ($402K), Block ($330K), Crusoe ($238K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a payments engineer a high-paying job?
The median Payments Engineer posting advertises $212K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 22% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a payments engineer?
A tenth of the postings offer $310K a year or more; the highest open Payments Engineer role advertises up to $485K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Payments Engineer salary per hour and per month?
The median of $212K a year is about $102 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,646 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $93 to $120 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Payments Engineer roles?
Postings that ask for Kotlin (+$36K, 6 postings), SQL (+$30K, 10 postings), Incident response (+$28K, 8 postings) advertise more than the $212K median of all Payments Engineer 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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