Salesforce administration salary: $158K median
The median advertised Salesforce administration salary is $158K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $120K to $188K: counted from 415 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $76 an hour or $13,125 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $218K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Salesforce administration jobs
$158Kmedian advertised salary
$120K – $188Kmiddle half of roles
$161Kaverage advertised salary
415roles counted
Salesforce administration salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $196K, 17% 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 | $136K–$192K | 109 |
| Lead and above | $196K | $175K–$225K | 90 |
| No level in the title | $140K | $110K–$162K | 210 |
Salesforce administration salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $190K | 58 |
| 🇺🇸California | $168K | 196 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $164K | 49 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $162K | 112 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $158K | 400 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $142K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $103K | 18 |
Skills that pay more for Salesforce administration roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $292K | 7 |
| Brex | $270K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $222K | 5 |
| Fivetran | $192K | 8 |
| MongoDB | $187K | 3 |
| ClickHouse | $176K | 4 |
| Rubrik | $170K | 4 |
| Apex Technology | $165K | 118 |
| CoreWeave | $162K | 3 |
| Alloy | $158K | 3 |
| FormativGroup | $145K | 9 |
| Elastic | $136K | 4 |
| Nerdwallet | $131K | 3 |
| Apollo.io | $130K | 3 |
| Apex Companies | $128K | 73 |
| Skydio | $124K | 5 |
| New Relic | $115K | 3 |
| Braze | $115K | 22 |
| APEX Fintech Services | $101K | 6 |
Highest-paying open Salesforce administration roles
All Salesforce administration jobs- Business Development Director, InternationalApex Technology · Remote$175K - $600KRemoteLead and abovePipeline managementSalesforce administrationEvent marketing
- Business Development Director, US Government MarketsApex Technology · 🇺🇸Denver$175K - $600KHybridLead and aboveSalesforce administrationEvent marketingCRM
- Tech Lead, Applied AI - EvalsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$260K - $500KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software Engineer, Support TechnologyAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$405K - $485KLead and aboveLLMZendeskAI agents
- Software Engineer, Beneficial DeploymentsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $405KLLMData modelingSSO
- Director Of Product, Onboarding, Hardware & Supply ChainToast · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$180K - $368KRemoteLead and aboveNetSuiteData warehousingOKRs
- Head of Enterprise ApplicationsBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$244K - $366KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeZendeskNetSuite
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Agentic ApplicationsDatabricks · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California$234K - $322KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Technical Lead, AI Engineering (Sales, Service & Supply Chain)Lucid Motors · 🇺🇸Newark, CA$217K - $318KLead and abovePythonLLMAWS
- Manager, Software EngineeringToast · 🇺🇸Remote, US$151K - $309KRemoteCI/CDAgileETL
- Customer Service Systems Engineer, GovernmentOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$272K - $302KHybridPythonJavaSecurity clearance
- Engineering Manager, SalesforceBrex · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$240K - $300KJavaScriptSalesforceCI/CD
- Engineering Manager, SalesforceBrex · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$240K - $300KJavaScriptSalesforceCI/CD
- Head of Field Engineering OperationsVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco$260K - $300KHybridLead and aboveSQLSalesforce administrationCompensation
- Data & Integration Engineer, Business SystemsFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $296KPythonSQLAirflow
- Staff GTM Systems EngineerLiveKit · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$216K - $292KRemoteLead and aboveSQLdbtSnowflake
- Staff Salesforce DeveloperAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$220K - $292KLead and aboveJavaScriptSalesforceTableau
- Senior Software Engineer II, Decisioning Studio Integrations TeamBraze · 🇺🇸San Francisco$156K - $280KSeniorPythonSQLGCP
- Senior Software Engineer II, Decisioning Studio Integrations TeamBraze · 🇺🇸Chicago$156K - $280KSeniorPythonSQLGCP
- Senior Finance Systems ArchitectLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$206K - $275KHybridSeniorPythonJavaScriptSQL
Questions about Salesforce administration pay
- What is the average Salesforce administration salary?
- $161K a year on average and $158K at the median, across 415 open Salesforce administration 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 $120K to $188K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Salesforce administration pay?
- Anthropic ($292K), Brex ($270K), Anduril Industries ($222K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a salesforce administration a high-paying job?
- The median Salesforce administration 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 salesforce administration?
- A tenth of the postings offer $218K a year or more; the highest open Salesforce administration role advertises up to $600K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Salesforce administration 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: $58 to $90 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Salesforce administration roles?
- Postings that ask for Snowflake (+$25K, 42 postings), Python (+$14K, 72 postings), CPQ (+$10K, 76 postings) advertise more than the $158K median of all Salesforce administration postings with pay.
- What does an entry-level salesforce administration make?
- 6 junior and intern Salesforce administration postings state pay, with a median of $99K a year ($47 an hour).
- 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 Salesforce administration roles at companies is $158K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $120K to $188K. Counted from 415 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/salesforce-administration/
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