Tax compliance salary: $155K median
The median advertised Tax compliance salary is $155K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $118K to $212K: counted from 207 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $75 an hour or $12,917 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $253K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Tax compliance jobs
$155Kmedian advertised salary
$118K – $212Kmiddle half of roles
$165Kaverage advertised salary
207roles counted
Tax compliance salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 65% more than senior roles ($140K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $140K | $108K–$180K | 57 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $192K–$265K | 44 |
| No level in the title | $140K | $108K–$178K | 102 |
Tax compliance salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $221K | 45 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $200K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸California | $170K | 75 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $155K | 195 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $140K | 15 |
Skills that pay more for Tax compliance roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer pricing | $224K | +$69K | 23 |
| Revenue recognition | $209K | +$54K | 28 |
| M&A | $189K | +$34K | 22 |
| SOX | $186K | +$31K | 54 |
| LLM | $186K | +$31K | 29 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $265K | 7 |
| Block | $256K | 3 |
| Sphere | $250K | 3 |
| Warp | $182K | 16 |
| Mozilla | $178K | 3 |
| Justworks | $173K | 8 |
| Metropolis | $170K | 4 |
| Anduril Industries | $165K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $156K | 6 |
| Carta | $144K | 7 |
| Cynch AI | $144K | 6 |
| April | $138K | 6 |
| Petra Funds Group | $128K | 4 |
| Allworth Financial | $125K | 3 |
| Boulay | $123K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Tax compliance roles
All Tax compliance jobs- Vice President & Chief Financial OfficerWellPower - All Jobs · 🇺🇸Denver$255K - $408KLead and aboveAgileCPAGAAP
- Chief Financial Officer ,North AmericaCrypto.com · 🇺🇸Chicago,IL$300K - $400KLead and aboveTableauNetSuiteCPA
- Director, US International Tax PlanningAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$300K - $385KLead and aboveLLMM&ATax compliance
- Associate - TaxNormlaw · 🇺🇸New York City$270K - $385KJuniorTax complianceLaw degreeBar admission
- Vice President, Global Corporate ControllerTemporal · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$270K - $350KHybridLead and aboveNetSuiteWorkdayCPA
- Head of Demand GenerationWarp · 🇺🇸New York$200K - $350KLead and aboveLLMSEOWorkday
- Director, Indirect TaxPatreon · 🇺🇸New York$232K - $348KLead and aboveNetSuiteReconciliationsFP&A
- CFOInterface Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $335KData governanceSOC 2ISO 27001
- Senior Software Engineer, Cash App TaxesBlock · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States of America$185K - $327KSeniorJavaKotlinSQL
- Senior Software Engineer, Cash App TaxesBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$185K - $327KSeniorJavaKotlinSQL
- Principal Engineer - Reporting & InsightsXero · 🇺🇸US: Washington Remote Worker$287K - $320KRemoteLead and above.NETLLMAWS
- Director, Technical Accounting - M&AAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA$230K - $300KLead and aboveExcelWorkdayCPA
- Staff Software Engineer, InvestorsCarta · 🇺🇸New York, NY$240K - $300KLead and abovePythonReactPostgreSQL
- Director of TaxCheckr · 🇺🇸Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, Californi…$213K - $296KLead and aboveFP&AM&ATax compliance
- Director, TaxDefinium Therapeutics · Hybrid$200K - $290KHybridLead and aboveCPAFP&ATax compliance
- Senior Manager, Global Deal DeskTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$179K - $285KRemoteSeniorNotionCPQRevenue recognition
- Software Engineer, Money PlatformOpenrouter · 🇺🇸Remote (US)$215K - $285KRemoteTypeScriptSQLPostgreSQL
- Corporate ControllerHarbinger Motors Inc. · 🇺🇸Garden Grove, CA$230K - $280KNetSuiteCPAERP
- VP of FinanceInterface Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco$240K - $280KLead and aboveCPACFAERP
- Lead AI EngineerSphere · 🇺🇸San Francisco HQ$250K - $280KLead and aboveLLMAIRAG
Questions about Tax compliance pay
- What is the average Tax compliance salary?
- $165K a year on average and $155K at the median, across 207 open Tax compliance 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 $118K to $212K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Tax compliance pay?
- Anthropic ($265K), Block ($256K), Sphere ($250K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a tax compliance a high-paying job?
- The median Tax compliance posting advertises $155K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 11% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a tax compliance?
- A tenth of the postings offer $253K a year or more; the highest open Tax compliance role advertises up to $408K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Tax compliance salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $155K a year is about $75 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $12,917 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $56 to $102 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Tax compliance roles?
- Postings that ask for Transfer pricing (+$69K, 23 postings), Revenue recognition (+$54K, 28 postings), M&A (+$34K, 22 postings) advertise more than the $155K median of all Tax compliance 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 Tax compliance roles at companies is $155K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $118K to $212K. Counted from 207 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/tax-compliance/
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