Transparent salaries

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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

NameTeamRoleLocationSalary
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Teammate avatar imageJenna
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Teammate avatar imageJenny
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Teammate avatar imageKyle
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Teammate avatar imageNick
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Teammate avatar imageMike E
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Teammate avatar imageHailley
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Teammate avatar imageSophie
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Teammate avatar imageAdnan
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Teammate avatar imageAndy
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Teammate avatar imageBoris
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Teammate avatar imageEric
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Teammate avatar imageHamish
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Teammate avatar imageJoe
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Teammate avatar imageJosé
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Teammate avatar imageMike S
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Teammate avatar imagePhil
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Teammate avatar imageSteven
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Teammate avatar imageEduardo
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Teammate avatar imageMaya
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Teammate avatar imageDinos
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Teammate avatar imageDianne
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Teammate avatar imageDace
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Teammate avatar imageMick
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Teammate avatar imageCarlos
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Teammate avatar imagePeter
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Teammate avatar imageArek
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Teammate avatar imageMw
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Teammate avatar imageDaisy
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Teammate avatar imageDiego
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Teammate avatar imageAmanda
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Teammate avatar imageSofia
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Teammate avatar imageIsmail
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Teammate avatar imageJulian
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Teammate avatar imageAdam
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Teammate avatar imageDaniel S
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Teammate avatar imageDanny
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Teammate avatar imageDarcy
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Teammate avatar imageDave C
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Teammate avatar imageHannah
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Teammate avatar imageJess
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Teammate avatar imageJulia
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Teammate avatar imageJuliet
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Teammate avatar imageKarinna
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Teammate avatar imageKelly
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Teammate avatar imageNate
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Teammate avatar imageOcta
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Teammate avatar imageRoss
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Teammate avatar imageMel
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Teammate avatar imageCheryl
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Teammate avatar imageLexi
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Teammate avatar imageBen
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Teammate avatar imageSimon
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Teammate avatar imageTami
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Teammate avatar imageMartin
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Teammate avatar imageMitra
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Teammate avatar imageAbeeb
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Teammate avatar imageJacob
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Teammate avatar imageEsther
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Teammate avatar imageDaniel P
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Teammate avatar imageNathan
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Teammate avatar imageBrandon
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Teammate avatar imageKate
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Teammate avatar imageRaf
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Teammate avatar imageKateryna
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Teammate avatar imageKirsti
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Teammate avatar imageAlicja
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Teammate avatar imageMartín
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See a more detailed view of our salaries

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Salary formula

Salary formula illustration
Salary formula step 1

We apply our Buffer Benchmark

This is a custom percentile for each area at Buffer applied to level 5 market data.

Role examples:

Customer Advocate III, $106,912

Product Marketer, $108,838

Salary formula step 2

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%)

Salary formula step 3

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.

Transparent Salaries Timeline

2022

Moved down to just two cost-of-living bands.

2021

Clarified our overall compensation principles and launched our Salaries page.

2019

We decided to benchmark all roles to the San Francisco 50th percentile.

2017

We added cost of living bands to our formula for more consistency.

2015

Adjusted our salary formula to be more robust and launched our salary calculator

2013

We created our first salary formula using our own salary bases.

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