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Capital One Salary

Capital One Salary

Capital One pays a median of $192K ($158K–$230K) across 1,429 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $158K–$230K salary range

Median: $192K  ·  Based on 1,429 public Capital One job postings  ·  Updated October 7, 2026


This Capital One salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Capital One · pay benchmark · updated October 7, 2026
$192K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$158K–$230K
Typical range
$427K view JD
Highest base · Sr. Staff Applied Researcher
1,429
Open roles
~5 yrs
Typical exp.
+1090
1349 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 38% of roles mention equity · options
IC salary by seniority
Mid
$192K (106)
Senior
$211K (440)
Staff
$262K (74)
Pay by location
New York $230K (43)Remote $232K (29)
Highest-paying skills
UX Design $269KUI Design $269KHugging Face $269KRAG $269KHuggingface $269KPyTorch $255KLLMs $249KFigma $234K

Highest-paying open roles at Capital One

Capital One engineering & product salary by seniority

  • Mid: $192K median · $286K top base — AI Engineer 5 (MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services) (view JD) (106)
  • Senior: $211K median · $286K top base — Machine Learning Engineer 5 (IC) (view JD) (440)
  • Staff: $262K median · $427K top base — Sr. Staff Applied Researcher (view JD) (74)

Capital One engineering & product management salary

  • Manager: $224K median · $286K top base — Sr. Manager, Cyber Security (view JD) (136)
  • Director+: $269K median · $392K top base — Senior Director, Data Engineer (view JD) (79)

Capital One salary by location

  • New York: $230K median · $406K top base — Senior Business Director (view JD) (43 roles)
  • Remote: $232K median · $392K top base — Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) (view JD) (29 roles)

Remote work at Capital One

21% of Capital One's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $232K median vs $131K onsite.

What Capital One looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Kubernetes (273) · Docker (244) · Node.js (237) · Team Leadership (110) · Scala (79) · AWS (72) · Product Roadmap (62) · Python (55) · PyTorch (53) · GCP (49).

Benefits & perks at Capital One

Commonly listed: dental (9) · mental-health (9) · pto (9) · 401k (8) · hsa-fsa (7) · parental (7) · commuter (1) · life-ins (1).

About Capital One

Capital One is Public stage · 10,001+ employees · founded 1994 · HQ Tysons Corner, Virginia. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Capital One

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 14+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 316 that do, Associate's and Master's and Bachelor's and PhD are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 38% of these postings reference equity (options). Equity is not included in the medians above.

Capital One total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: common structures: hourly. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Capital One hiring activity

Capital One has 1,429 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 1,429 public job postings with disclosed pay. 1,090 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (1,349 in the last 90).

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Common questions

What does Capital One pay?
The median pay is $192K, with a typical range of $158K–$230K, based on 1,429 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Capital One?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Sr. Staff Applied Researcher, at $374K–$427K base.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 1,429 public Capital One job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed October 7, 2026.

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