SaaS Salary Benchmarks

Staff Member Salary Benchmarks

Compensation data for the Staff Member role at US SaaS companies, based on 30 verified salaries.

Quartile breakdownAll SaaS roles
Base salary · US SaaS30 salaries
$85,087
Median base salary
Bottom 25% avg$32,304Top 25% avg$148,465
Average base salary
$87,942
Typical range (P25–P75)
$53,710–$101,958
Salaries analyzed
30

Hiring for this role? At the median, one Staff Member costs $85,087 a year in base salary.

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Overview
30 salaries

Staff Member Salary Overview

Bottom 25% AverageAverage of the lowest-paid quarter · 6 salaries
$32,304
Middle 50% AverageAverage of the middle half · 16 salaries
$78,545
Top 25% AverageAverage of the highest-paid quarter · 8 salaries
$148,465

Median Staff Member base pay by pay period

Per year
$85,087
Per month
$7,091
Every two weeks
$3,273
Per hour
$40.91
Base-pay equivalents before tax; hourly assumes 2,080 working hours a year.

Staff Member salaries at SaaS companies average $87,942, with typical salaries ranging from $53,710 to $101,958. Based on 30 real salary data points from SaaS companies.

Quartile bands
Employees · annualized base

Detailed Staff Member Compensation Breakdown

Staff Member base salary by percentile band
Percentile BandSalary rangeAverage Base Salary# of salaries
Top 25%$101,958 and up$148,4658 salaries
Middle 50%$53,710–$101,958$78,54516 salaries
Bottom 25%Under $53,710$32,3046 salaries
Hiring budget
Base salary · fully loaded

What Does a Staff Member Cost to Hire?

Budget for Staff Member 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 Staff Member hire at the median: $85,087 a year in base salary, $106,359–$119,122 fully loaded.

Cost of one hire by pay level
Per hireP25MedianP75
Base salary / year$53,710$85,087$101,958
Base salary / month$4,476$7,091$8,497
Fully loaded / year1.25–1.4× base$67,138–$75,194$106,359–$119,122$127,448–$142,741
Fully loaded / month1.25–1.4× base$5,595–$6,266$8,863–$9,927$10,621–$11,895
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

Staff Member Pay by the Numbers

  • The middle half of Staff Member salaries spans $53,710–$101,958: a $48,248 spread, 57% of the $85,087 median.
  • A 75th-percentile Staff Member earns 1.9× the 25th-percentile salary.
  • The Staff Member median is 26% above the median Operations, Finance & People role ($67,760 across 114 roles).

What Drives Higher Staff Member 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
Staff Member salary

On a median base salary of $85,087, a Staff Member at a US SaaS company makes about $7,091 a month, $3,273 every two weeks, or $40.91 an hour over 2,080 working hours a year. The middle half of salaries (25th–75th percentile) works out to $4,476–$8,497 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 30 verified SaaS Staff Member salaries, the 25th percentile is $53,710 and the median is $85,087. A Staff Member 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 $101,958 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 $85,087, the fully loaded cost of a US Staff Member is roughly $106,359–$119,122 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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