Slack salary: $165K median
The median advertised Slack salary is $165K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $125K to $210K: counted from 773 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $79 an hour or $13,750 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $256K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Slack jobs
$165Kmedian advertised salary
$125K – $210Kmiddle half of roles
$172Kaverage advertised salary
773roles counted
Slack salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 28% more than senior roles ($182K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $182K | $150K–$203K | 187 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $172K–$275K | 129 |
| No level in the title | $145K | $110K–$188K | 448 |
Slack salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $200K | 50 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $195K | 194 |
| 🇺🇸California | $172K | 259 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $166K | 706 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $158K | 128 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $151K | 22 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $140K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $140K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $133K | 16 |
Skills that pay more for Slack roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM | $210K | +$45K | 124 |
| TypeScript | $202K | +$37K | 93 |
| AI agents | $194K | +$28K | 86 |
| GCP | $190K | +$25K | 89 |
| Python | $186K | +$20K | 186 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $342K | 23 |
| Brex | $270K | 7 |
| Harvey | $264K | 5 |
| Goteleport | $264K | 8 |
| Ashby | $262K | 9 |
| Headway | $230K | 7 |
| ClickHouse | $228K | 6 |
| Perplexity | $228K | 10 |
| Glean | $228K | 3 |
| Figma | $224K | 3 |
| Vercel | $220K | 4 |
| Cloudflare | $218K | 3 |
| Axion | $218K | 7 |
| WorkOS | $216K | 4 |
| Pure Storage | $215K | 3 |
| Elastic | $212K | 8 |
| Conversion | $212K | 3 |
| Temporal | $211K | 3 |
| Box | $210K | 3 |
| Propel | $210K | 5 |
| Linear | $210K | 5 |
| Honeycomb | $206K | 13 |
| Gigaml | $205K | 3 |
| Litellm | $200K | 3 |
| Read Ai | $195K | 15 |
Highest-paying open Slack roles
All Slack jobs- Performance EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$280K - $850KMachine LearningLLMLoad balancing
- Research Engineer, Knowledge TeamAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$350K - $850KRemotePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Member of Technical Staff, Agent ProductMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KSlack
- Software Engineer, Product VelocityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridPythonTypeScriptCI/CD
- Physical Design Engineer, HardwareRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX$200K - $420KPythonDeep learningSlack
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonLLM
- Product Engineer, Applied AIParadigm · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$250K - $400KAISlack
- Head of Platform & Infrastructure EngineeringAshby · 🇺🇸Remote - US$340K - $400KRemoteLead and aboveC++LLMCI/CD
- Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI ToolsFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$258K - $376KLLMCI/CDAI
- Head of Enterprise ApplicationsBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$244K - $366KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeZendeskNetSuite
- Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed EngineeringQuadrillion Labs · 🇺🇸New York City$175K - $350KPythonPandasNLP
- Account Director, National SecurityTrm Labs · 🇺🇸Washington D.C.$293K - $343KRemoteLead and aboveSecurity clearanceSlackProduct marketing
- Senior Backend EngineerGoteleport · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$181K - $342KRemoteSeniorRustGoLinux
- Senior Backend Engineer - Application AccessGoteleport · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$189K - $342KRemoteSeniorGoLinuxOAuth
- Head of SalesDoppler · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$275K - $340KRemoteLead and aboveSlackNotionMEDDIC
- Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product EngineeringHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$231K - $340KHybridLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Staff/Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product EngineeringHarvey · 🇺🇸New York$231K - $340KHybridLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Chief Information & Security OfficerNextdoor · 🇺🇸Dallas, TX$260K - $340KLead and aboveWorkdayCISSPCISM
- Senior Customer Engineer AI/ Start Up'sCloudflare · Hybrid$214K - $336KHybridSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Head of Integrated Logistics SupportAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$253K - $336KLead and aboveComputer VisionSecurity clearanceSlack
Questions about Slack pay
- What is the average Slack salary?
- $172K a year on average and $165K at the median, across 773 open Slack 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 $125K to $210K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Slack pay?
- Anthropic ($342K), Brex ($270K), Harvey ($264K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a slack a high-paying job?
- The median Slack posting advertises $165K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a slack?
- A tenth of the postings offer $256K a year or more; the highest open Slack role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Slack salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $165K a year is about $79 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,750 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $60 to $101 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Slack roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$45K, 124 postings), TypeScript (+$37K, 93 postings), AI agents (+$28K, 86 postings) advertise more than the $165K median of all Slack postings with pay.
- What does an entry-level slack make?
- 9 junior and intern Slack postings state pay, with a median of $115K a year ($55 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 Slack roles at companies is $165K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $125K to $210K. Counted from 773 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/slack/
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