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, U.S.	$290,250
Caro	Leadership	Chief of Special Projects	Portland, OR, U.S.	$225,000
Dan	Leadership, Engineering	CTO	Royal Oak, MI, U.S.	$225,000
Maria	Leadership, Product	CPO	Denver, CO, U.S.	$267,890
Katie	Leadership, Engineering	VP of Engineering	Vancouver, Canada	$247,500
Tyler	Leadership, Design	VP of Design	Bellingham, WA, U.S.	$231,750
Caryn	Leadership, Finance	VP Finance	San Luis Obispo, CA, U.S.	$225,000
Åsa	Leadership, Advocacy	VP Customer Advocacy	London, U.K.	$225,000
Mandy	People	Executive Assistant	Nashville, TN, U.S.	$99,232
Nicole	People	Senior People Ops Manager	Woodland, WA, U.S.	$114,300
Jenny	Finance	Director of Business Operations	Louisville, KY, U.S.	$162,509
Stephanie	People	Team Experience Manager	Singapore	$97,891
Kyle	Finance	Accountant	Jacksonville, FL, U.S.	$105,828
Nick	Finance	Accounting Specialist	Nairobi, Kenya	$69,966
Arielle	Marketing	Community Strategist	Philadelphia, PA, U.S.	$97,954
Ash	Marketing	Content Marketer	Bury St Edmunds, U.K.	$106,054
Mike E	Marketing	Product Marketer	Sydney, Australia	$97,954
Hailley	Marketing	Public Relations Manager	Charlottesville, VA, U.S.	$103,949
Ashley	Marketing	Head of Lifecycle Marketing	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	$161,368
Sophie	Marketing	Audience Marketer	San Francisco, CA, U.S.	$99,031
Adnan	Engineering	Software Engineer III	Global	$128,411
Andy	Engineering	Senior Engineer II, Mobile iOS	San Francisco, CA, U.S.	$176,152
Boris	Engineering	Senior Engineer II	Montpellier, France	$152,381
Colin	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Cambridge, U.K.	$173,141
Eric	Engineering	Senior Engineer II	Taipei, Taiwan	$152,381
Federico	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Pleasanton, CA, U.S.	$155,094
Hamish	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Vancouver, Canada	$136,848
Ivana	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Zadar, Croatia	$155,428
Joe	Engineering	Senior Engineer II, Mobile Android	Brighton, U.K.	$152,381
Jordan	Engineering	Senior Engineer I, Mobile iOS	Ozark, MO, U.S.	$136,848
José	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Madrid, Spain	$145,224
Marcus W	Engineering	Engineering Manager, Mobile	Munich, Germany	$161,708
Mike S	Engineering	Staff Engineer	Barcelona, Spain	$173,141
Phil	Engineering	Senior Engineer II	Montpellier, France	$152,381
Steven	Engineering	Staff Engineer	High cost of living city	$173,141
Gisete	Engineering, Marketing	Marketing Engineer II	Seattle, WA, U.S.	$121,005
Ana	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Porto, Portugal	$136,848
Eduardo	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Maastricht, Netherlands	$136,848
Maya	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Barcelona, Spain	$136,848
Amy Lee	Engineering	Software Engineer III	Nashville, TN, U.S.	$121,005
Karel	Engineering	Senior Engineer II	Surrey, U.K.	$152,381
Sol	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Low cost of living city	$136,848
Juliana	Engineering	Software Engineer II	Low cost of living city	$108,577
Dinos	Engineering	Senior Engineer I	Gorredijk, Netherlands	$136,848
Dianne	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Zurich, Switzerland	$172,698
Dace	Engineering	Software Engineer II	New York, NY, U.S.	$123,054
Mick	Engineering	Software Eng II	Wexford, Ireland	$108,577
Prateek	Engineering	Software Engineer III	Bangalore, India	$121,005
Emmanuel	Engineering	Engineering Manager	Lagos, Nigeria	$152,381
Tom R	Product	Senior Product Manager	Toronto, Canada	$169,811
Mia	Product	Product Manager	Global	$156,164
Diego	Product	Product Manager	Barcelona, Spain	$153,000
Amanda	Product	Strategic Partnerships Manager	Amsterdam, Netherlands	$136,281
Anne	Product	Senior Product Manager	Portland, OR, U.S.	$173,207
Steven	Product	Senior Product Manager	Edmonton, Canada	$153,000
Tom D	Design	Product Designer	Bristol, U.K.	$113,254
James	Design	Senior Designer	London, U.K.	$147,900
Julia J	Design, Marketing	Marketing Designer	Wroclaw, Poland	$130,500
Lauren	Design	Senior Designer	Ventura, CA, U.S.	$138,488
David G	Data	Data Engineer	Granada, Spain	$130,869
Julian	Data	Data Scientist	Louisville, KY, U.S.	$138,352
Matt	Data, Marketing	Data Scientist	Nomad	$118,015
Michael	Data	Data Science Manager	Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.	$190,249
Adam	Advocacy	Tech Advocate	Detroit, MI, U.S.	$112,500
Daniel S	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Bonners Ferry, ID, U.S.	$83,068
Danny	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Manchester, U.K.	$96,221
Darcy	Advocacy	Customer Advocate Manager	Denver, CO, U.S.	$105,143
Dave C	Advocacy	Customer Advocate IIII	London, U.K.	$106,912
Hannah	Advocacy	Customer Engagement Strategist	Brighton, U.K.	$143,466
Heather-Mae	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Southern Pines, NC, U.S.	$83,068
Jess	Advocacy	Customer Advocate II	Average cost of living city	$73,502
Julia	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Los Angeles, CA, U.S.	$96,221
Juliet	Advocacy	Senior Customer Advocate I	London, U.K.	$110,119
Karinna	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Honolulu, HI, U.S.	$83,068
Katie G	Advocacy	Customer Advocate	Woodside, CA, U.S.	$105,080
Kelly	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Average cost of living city	$96,221
Nate	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Portland, OR, U.S.	$85,561
Octa	Advocacy	Customer Advocate III	Nomad	$83,068
Ross	Advocacy	Customer Advocate Manager	Louisville, KY, U.S.	$99,107
Essence	Advocacy	Customer Advocate II	Chicago, IL, U.S.	$73,502
Meilyna	Advocacy	Customer Advocate II	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	$73,502
James W	Advocacy	Customer Advocate II	Melbourne, Australia	$70,647
Cheryl	Advocacy	Customer Advocate I	Tema, Ghana	$54,729

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:

Low (75%), Average (85%), Intermediate (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.

Calculate your salary

5% Gender Pay Gap

Our unadjusted pay gap at Buffer across the entire organization is 5.46% as of March 2021. We’re proud that this is much lower than average in tech (12%) and we will continue working towards no unadjusted gender pay gap.

Read our 2021 pay analysis