Most engineering roles at Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa get paid six-figure salaries, with some topping $200,000.Samantha Lee/Business Insider
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For any payments company, tech is a huge part of the budget. Speed and security of a network can make or break a company like Amex or Mastercard. And as payments become increasingly digital, these infrastructure giants have to keep maintaining and updating rails and systems.
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That means a large part of payments companies' headcount lies in tech.
Insider recently created a searchable database of the last three years of salary disclosures, collected from the USCIS website, curated to a range of more than 250 companies that Insider reporters regularly cover. The data is filterable by employer name, type of job, and job location, catching the differences between software engineers in Silicon Valley and Miami.
We used this database to see how much Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa pay their technology employees. The data only includes base pay, not bonuses or equity awards.
You can compare thousands more salaries from top companies right here.
American Express
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Architect — Phoenix, Arizona — $160k -$170k
Director, Engineering — New York, New York — $200k
SVP, Global Head of Infrastructure — New York, New York — $450k
Mastercard
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Principal Bizops Engineer — New York, New York — $150k-$260k.
Lead Software Development Engineer — New York, New York — $140k-$220k
VP, Product Management/Technical PM — New York, New York — $180-290k
PayPal
PayPal
Software Engineer II — San Jose, California — $210k
Director, Product Management — San Jose, California — $230k
Senior Merchant Tech Services Software Engineer — San Jose, California — $250k
Square
Square
Electrical design engineer — San Francisco, California — $180k
Engineer, Manager - Deposits — San Francisco, California — $200k
Senior software engineer — San Francisco, California — $290k
Visa
Visa
Lead cybersecurity engineer — Foster City, California — $140k-$220k
Chief security architect — Foster City, California — $170k-$250k
SVP, Payment System Risk — Foster City, California — $230k-$390k
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Shannen covered payments and fintech on the finance team at Insider.From point-of-sale financing and QR codes to cryptocurrencies and on-demand pay, Shannen covered the latest in how we shop, pay, and get paid.She graduated from New York University with a degree in Journalism & Politics, and was based in New York.
