Crypto Salary Benchmarks for Employers
What to offer, from 599 live employer-published bands. Updated 2026-10-31.
This page exists for one decision: what band to put on a crypto job listing. Every figure comes from the 599 live roles on the board whose employer publishes a USD annual range on its own listing — the median midpoint across all of them is $195k, with the middle half of bands between $160k and $232k. Nothing here is surveyed, modelled or estimated; the table recomputes daily as listings open and close.
Pay by function — employer-published bands
| Function | Bands | 25th pct | Median | 75th pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 210 | $175k | $203k | $233k |
| Operations | 131 | $120k | $166k | $220k |
| BD & Sales | 102 | $145k | $194k | $240k |
| Marketing & Growth | 54 | $150k | $182k | $215k |
| Product | 28 | $200k | $210k | $225k |
| Other | 20 | $150k | $210k | $225k |
| Executive | 16 | $250k | $267k | $280k |
| Trading & Quant | 16 | $136k | $165k | $212k |
| Design | 15 | $162k | $187k | $227k |
Per-role figure = midpoint of the employer's published range; functions with fewer than 10 bands are omitted rather than estimated. Click a function for the role-level table.
Remote vs on-site
Remote roles with published bands show a median of $191k; on-site roles $200k. Some employers location-adjust remote bands and say so in the listing; where they do, the adjusted range is what appears here. The practical point for an employer: with 35% of live crypto roles remote, an on-site-only requirement is competing for a much smaller pool at roughly the same price.
How to set a band
Three rules from the data. First, publish one: only 17% of live crypto roles do, so a listing with a range is the exception candidates notice, and it is the first filter experienced people apply. Second, anchor to the function's interquartile range above rather than the headline median — a band that spans the 25th–75th percentile of the market reads as honest and leaves room to close. Third, state the non-base components concretely: token or equity grants, vesting, cliff, and what the grant is denominated in. Experienced crypto candidates discount vague equity language to zero and anchor on base; a specific description is worth real money in the offer conversation. The full salary report has percentiles by role title and the top-paying companies; the highest-paying roles page shows where the top of the market sits.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average crypto salary in 2026?
Across the 599 live crypto roles that publish a USD annual band, the median midpoint is $195k, with the middle half of bands between $160k and $232k. This is a median of employer-published bands, not a survey estimate, and it recomputes daily.
Which crypto function pays the most?
By median published band today: Executive at $267k. The full table by function is on this page; trading-firm roles additionally carry variable components that published bands understate.
Do remote crypto jobs pay less than on-site?
Not on current data: remote roles with published bands show a median of $191k against $200k for on-site roles. Some employers location-adjust remote bands; the listing's own range is always the figure shown.
Where does this salary data come from?
Only from bands employers publish on their own live listings — Lever and Ashby structured compensation fields, or a US-style annual range in Greenhouse posting text. Roles without a band are excluded, never estimated; non-USD and hourly bands are excluded from these annual figures.
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Figures on this page are computed from ChainJobs' own live board on 2026-10-31 and refresh daily. Salary figures come only from bands employers publish on their own listings — nothing estimated. How we source data →