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Finance Manager Salary Benchmarks

Compensation data for the Finance Manager role at US SaaS companies, based on 50 verified salaries.

Quartile breakdownAll SaaS roles
Base salary · US SaaS50 salaries
$30,000
Median base salary
Bottom 25% avg$14,639Top 25% avg$128,205
Average base salary
$59,201
Typical range (P25–P75)
$30,000–$88,501
Salaries analyzed
50

Hiring for this role? At the median, one Finance Manager costs $30,000 a year in base salary.

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Overview
50 salaries

Finance Manager Salary Overview

Bottom 25% AverageAverage of the lowest-paid quarter · 12 salaries
$14,639
Middle 50% AverageAverage of the middle half · 22 salaries
$33,323
Top 25% AverageAverage of the highest-paid quarter · 16 salaries
$128,205

Median Finance Manager base pay by pay period

Per year
$30,000
Per month
$2,500
Every two weeks
$1,154
Per hour
$14.42
Base-pay equivalents before tax; hourly assumes 2,080 working hours a year.

Finance Manager salaries at SaaS companies average $59,201, with typical salaries ranging from $30,000 to $88,501. Based on 50 real salary data points from SaaS companies.

Quartile bands
Employees · annualized base

Detailed Finance Manager Compensation Breakdown

Finance Manager base salary by percentile band
Percentile BandSalary rangeAverage Base Salary# of salaries
Top 25%$88,501 and up$128,20516 salaries
Middle 50%$30,000–$88,501$33,32322 salaries
Bottom 25%Under $30,000$14,63912 salaries
Hiring budget
Base salary · fully loaded

What Does a Finance Manager Cost to Hire?

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

Pay level
Hires
1

One Finance Manager hire at the median: $30,000 a year in base salary, $37,500–$42,000 fully loaded.

Cost of one hire by pay level
Per hireP25MedianP75
Base salary / year$30,000$30,000$88,501
Base salary / month$2,500$2,500$7,375
Fully loaded / year1.25–1.4× base$37,500–$42,000$37,500–$42,000$110,626–$123,901
Fully loaded / month1.25–1.4× base$3,125–$3,500$3,125–$3,500$9,219–$10,325
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

Finance Manager Pay by the Numbers

  • The middle half of Finance Manager salaries spans $30,000–$88,501: a $58,501 spread, 195% of the $30,000 median.
  • A 75th-percentile Finance Manager earns 3.0× the 25th-percentile salary.
  • The Finance Manager median is 57% below the median Operations, Finance & People role ($70,000 across 114 roles).

What Drives Higher Finance Manager 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
Finance Manager salary

On a median base salary of $30,000, a Finance Manager at a US SaaS company makes about $2,500 a month, $1,154 every two weeks, or $14.42 an hour over 2,080 working hours a year. The middle half of salaries (25th–75th percentile) works out to $2,500–$7,375 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 50 verified SaaS Finance Manager salaries, the 25th percentile is $30,000 and the median is $30,000. A Finance Manager 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 $88,501 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 $30,000, the fully loaded cost of a US Finance Manager is roughly $37,500–$42,000 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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