Transparent salaries

Transparency is one of our core values. We’ve found that it builds trust, holds us accountable, and can push our industry forward. Since 2013, we’ve shared our formula-based approach to compensation, including the complete list of our salaries.

We’ve found that salary transparency can help others, which is central to our mission: to help small businesses get off the ground and grow.

View up-to-date salaries of everyone at Buffer in this table. Read on for our approach and philosophy.

Buffer Salaries

Name	Team	Role	Location	Salary
Joel	Leadership	CEO	Boulder, CO, USA	$298,958
Caro	Leadership	Chief of Staff	Portland, OR, USA	$231,750
Maria	Leadership, Product	CPO	Denver, CO, USA	$296,620
Åsa	Leadership, Advocacy	VP Customer Advocacy	Sydney, Australia	$235,103
Mandy	People	Executive Assistant	Nashville, TN, USA	$106,337
Jenna	People	Executive Assistant	Grand Rapids, MI, USA	$104,252
Jenny	Finance	Director of Business Operations	Louisville, KY, USA	$191,442
Kyle	Finance	Senior Accountant	Jacksonville, FL, USA	$128,576
Nick	Finance	Accounting Associate	Nairobi, Kenya	$80,579
Mike E	Marketing	Senior Product Marketing Manager	Sydney, Australia	$151,286
Hailley	Marketing	Senior Content & Communications Manager	Charlottesville, VA, USA	$157,500
Sophie	Marketing	Demand Gen Specialist	Nomad	$102,297
Adnan	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Global Cost of Living	$145,059
Andy	Engineering	Staff Engineer, Mobile iOS	San Francisco, CA, USA	$203,898
Boris	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Montpellier, France	$161,518
Eric	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Taipei, Taiwan	$161,518
Federico	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Pleasanton, CA, USA	$167,688
Hamish	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Vancouver, Canada	$161,518
Joe	Engineering	Senior Engineer, Mobile Android	Brighton, UK	$171,404
Jordan	Engineering	Senior Engineer, Mobile iOS	Ozark, MO, USA	$145,059
José	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Madrid, Spain	$161,518
Mike S	Engineering	Staff Engineer	Barcelona, Spain	$194,740
Phil	Engineering	Staff Engineer	Montpellier, France	$183,508
Steven	Engineering	Staff Engineer	Taipei, Taiwan	$183,508
Gisete	Engineering	Software Engineer	Seattle, WA, USA	$142,517
Eduardo	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Maastricht, Netherlands	$150,919
Maya	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Barcelona, Spain	$147,960
Amy Lee	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Nashville, TN, USA	$161,518
Sol	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Global Cost of Living	$145,059
Juliana	Engineering	Software Engineer	Global Cost of Living	$130,831
Dinos	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Gorredijk, Netherlands	$147,960
Dianne	Engineering	Director of Engineering	Zurich, Switzerland	$216,378
Dace	Engineering	Software Engineer	New York, NY, USA	$142,517
Mick	Engineering	Software Engineer	Wexford, Ireland	$130,831
Prateek	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Bangalore, India	$145,059
Gabi	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Amsterdam, Netherlands	$183,508
Carlos	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Madrid, Spain	$161,518
Peter	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Global Cost of Living	$145,059
Arek	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Warsaw, Poland	$145,059
Heather Y	Engineering	Software Engineer	New York, NY, USA	$125,132
Mw	Engineering	Software Engineer	Cape Town, South Africa	$130,831
Ethan	Engineering, Marketing	Marketing Engineer	Philadelphia, PA, USA	$114,871
Daisy	Engineering	Software Engineer	Sydney, Australia	$128,265
Henry	Engineering	Senior Engineer	Berlin, Germany	$161,518
Tom R	Product	Director of Product	Toronto, Canada	$204,021
Diego	Product	Senior Product Manager	Barcelona, Spain	$168,732
Amanda	Product	Senior Product Manager	Amsterdam, Netherlands	$165,424
Steve	Product	Senior Product Manager	Edmonton, Canada	$168,732
Catinca	Product	Product Manager	Bucharest, Romania	$153,450
Tom D	Design	Senior Product Designer	Bristol, UK	$139,050
Sofia	Design	Senior Product Designer	Antwerp, Belgium	$143,222
Ismail	Design	Product Designer	Casablanca, Morocco	$124,125
Julian	Data	Senior Data Scientist	Louisville, KY, USA	$169,780
Adam	Advocacy	Senior Escalations Manager	Detroit, MI, USA	$119,351
Daniel S	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Bonners Ferry, ID, USA	$85,561
Danny	Advocacy	Technical Advocate	Manchester, UK	$105,462
Darcy	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate Manager	Fort Collins, CO, USA	$111,392
Dave C	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	London, UK	$116,826
Hannah	Advocacy	Head of Customer Advocacy Operations	Brighton, UK	$153,740
Jess	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Kalispell, MT, USA	$66,096
Julia	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	Los Angeles, CA, USA	$113,423
Juliet	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	London, UK	$116,826
Karinna	Advocacy	Technical Advocate	Tustin, CA, USA	$99,408
Katie G	Advocacy	Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Manager	Woodside, CA, USA	$156,827
Kelly	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	Philadelphia, PA, USA	$102,081
Nate	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	Portland, OR, USA	$102,081
Octa	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate	Nomad	$99,107
Ross	Advocacy	Customer Advocate Manager	Louisville, KY, USA	$108,297
Essence	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Chicago, IL, USA	$80,649
Meilyna	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam	$83,068
James W	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Melbourne, Australia	$88,127
Cheryl	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Tema, Ghana, West Africa	$75,685
Lexi	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Brooklyn, NY, USA	$81,645
Ben	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand	$71,340
Emily	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Melbourne, Australia	$71,340
Simon	Marketing	Director of Growth Marketing	Ottawa, Canada	$193,705
Umber	Marketing	Content Writer	San Jose, CA, USA	$99,955
Tami	Marketing	Content Writer	Lagos, Nigeria	$91,759
Martin	Design	Senior Design Manager	Berkeley, CA, USA	$203,937
Mitra	Marketing	Social Media Manager	New Braunfels, TX, USA	$96,584
Phill	Marketing	Senior Product Marketing Manager	London, UK	$171,458
Abeeb	Engineering	Software Engineer	Lagos, Nigeria	$128,265
Jacob	Engineering	Software Engineer	Nashville, TN, USA	$128,265
Batsirai	Product	Growth Product Manager	Ottawa, Canada	$153,450

Open roles

Salary formula

We benchmark for position and experience level

The role benchmark is based on the software industry and the 50th percentile of San Francisco market data.

Role examples:

Customer Advocate III, $106,912

Product Marketer, $108,838

Apply cost of living based on your location

These take into account being a global team, while closing the gap found in traditional compensation approaches.

Cost of living bands:

Global (90%) and High (100%)

Determine a formula-based salary

We calculate salaries taking into account being a global team and closing the gap found in traditional pay practices.

Salary example:

A Product Marketer in an Intermediate cost of living band would earn $97,954.

Our compensation philosophy

We’re committed to providing fair and competitive compensation through these key principles:

Transparent

Openly share our approach and all salaries to create trust, hold ourselves accountable, and serve as a resource for the industry.

Simple

Maintain an easy-to-understand formula that allows anyone to easily see how we arrive at any individual salary.

Fair

Ensure that those with the same role and responsibilities who are at the same experience level are paid equitably.

Generous

Pay above market to attract the team we need, thrive as individuals, and avoid exceptions and inequity resulting from negotiation.

The Buffer Salary calculator

We built a salary calculator so that anyone can see what they would make at Buffer. We hope this information can also help others determine fair and competitive salaries across various roles and locations.

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<1% Gender Pay Gap

Our unadjusted pay gap at Buffer across the entire organization is .4% as of February 2022. We’re proud that this is much lower than average in tech (12%).

Read our 2022 pay analysis