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Customer Support Representative Salary Benchmarks

Compensation data for the Customer Support Representative role at US SaaS companies, based on 16 verified salaries.

Quartile breakdown All SaaS roles

Base salary · US SaaS16 salaries

$14,781

Median base salary

Bottom 25% avg$11Top 25% avg$38,250

Average base salary: $15,914
Typical range (P25–P75): $2,629–$23,944
Salaries analyzed: 16

Hiring for this role? At the median, one Customer Support Representative costs $14,781 a year in base salary.

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Overview

16 salaries

Customer Support Representative Salary Overview

Bottom 25% AverageAverage of the lowest-paid quarter · 3 salaries: $11
Middle 50% AverageAverage of the middle half · 9 salaries: $11,288
Top 25% AverageAverage of the highest-paid quarter · 4 salaries: $38,250

Median Customer Support Representative base pay by pay period

Per year: $14,781
Per month: $1,232
Every two weeks: $569
Per hour: $7.11

Base-pay equivalents before tax; hourly assumes 2,080 working hours a year.

Customer Support Representative salaries at SaaS companies average $15,914, with typical salaries ranging from $2,629 to $23,944. Based on 16 real salary data points from SaaS companies.

Quartile bands

Employees · annualized base

Detailed Customer Support Representative Compensation Breakdown

Customer Support Representative base salary by percentile band
Percentile Band	Salary range	Average Base Salary	# of salaries
Top 25%	$23,944 and up	$38,250	4 salaries
Middle 50%	$2,629–$23,944	$11,288	9 salaries
Bottom 25%	Under $2,629	$11	3 salaries

Hiring budget

Base salary · fully loaded

What Does a Customer Support Representative Cost to Hire?

Budget for Customer Support Representative hires at the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile of this benchmark, as base salary and as fully loaded cost.

Pay level

Hires

One Customer Support Representative hire at the median: $14,781 a year in base salary, $18,476–$20,693 fully loaded.

Cost of one hire by pay level
Per hire	P2525th percentile	MedianMedian	P7575th percentile
Base salary / year	$2,629	$14,781	$23,944
Base salary / month	$219	$1,232	$1,995
Fully loaded / year1.25–1.4× base	$3,286–$3,680	$18,476–$20,693	$29,930–$33,522
Fully loaded / month1.25–1.4× base	$274–$307	$1,540–$1,724	$2,494–$2,793

Fully loaded adds employer payroll taxes, health and retirement benefits, software seats, and equipment at 1.25–1.4× base salary. That multiplier is a planning rule of thumb applied to this benchmark, not a surveyed cost figure. Commission, bonus, equity, and recruiting fees are not included.

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Key insights

Customer Support Representative Pay by the Numbers

The middle half of Customer Support Representative salaries spans $2,629–$23,944: a $21,316 spread, 144% of the $14,781 median.
A 75th-percentile Customer Support Representative earns 9.1× the 25th-percentile salary.
The Customer Support Representative median is 77% below the median Customer Success & Support role ($65,403 across 24 roles).

What Drives Higher Customer Support Representative Pay?

Years of experience and proven track record
Company stage and funding (later stage typically pays more)
Technical expertise and specialization
Location and remote work policies

FAQ

Customer Support Representative salary

On a median base salary of $14,781, a Customer Support Representative at a US SaaS company makes about $1,232 a month, $569 every two weeks, or $7.11 an hour over 2,080 working hours a year. The middle half of salaries (25th–75th percentile) works out to $219–$1,995 a month. These are base-pay equivalents before tax, and they leave out bonus, commission, and equity.

Expect the lower half of this benchmark. Across 16 verified SaaS Customer Support Representative salaries, the 25th percentile is $2,629 and the median is $14,781. A Customer Support Representative at a seed or Series A startup, or at a bootstrapped company under roughly $10M ARR, will often land between those two figures. Base pay typically moves toward and past the $23,944 75th percentile as the company adds headcount and ARR. Those stage bands are a rule of thumb applied to this benchmark, not a breakdown by company size, which the dataset does not report.

Budget for more than base salary. On a median base of $14,781, the fully loaded cost of a US Customer Support Representative is roughly $18,476–$20,693 per year once employer payroll taxes (~7.65% FICA plus federal and state unemployment), health and retirement benefits, software seats, and equipment are added. That 1.25–1.4x multiplier is a planning rule of thumb applied to the benchmark on this page, not a surveyed cost figure. Commission, bonuses, and equity sit on top where the role carries them. Also budget one-off hiring costs: agency recruiting fees commonly run 15–25% of first-year base, and a new hire takes weeks to months to reach full productivity.

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