Chime Salary

💰 $133K–$180K salary range

Median: $154K  ·  Based on 50 public Chime job postings  ·  Updated June 25, 2026

This Chime salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect the posted-range midpoint (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Chime

• Director, Associate General Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI — $264K · Legal
• Senior Director, Strategy and Growth Initiatives — $253K · Strategy and Growth Initiatives
• Product Design Director, Growth — $242K · Product Design
• Director, Marketing Planning & Operations — $234K · Marketing General
• Principal Product Designer, Spending — $202K · Product Design
• Creative Director, Brand Marketing — $201K · Brand Marketing
• Engineering Manager, Spending, Savings, & Investing — $199K · Spending, Saving, & Investing Engineering
• Director, People Strategy & Program Management — $199K · People
• Engineering Manager, Data Platform — $199K · Data Engineering
• Director, Growth Marketing (TV & Offline Media) — $196K · Growth Marketing

Chime salary by department

• security: $130K median · $181K top base — Senior Offensive Security Engineer (view JD) (5 roles)

Chime salary by seniority

• Mid: $133K median · $170K top base — Product Designer, Disputes (view JD) (6)
• Senior: $160K median · $253K top base — Senior Director, Strategy and Growth Initiatives (view JD) (23)

Chime salary — lead & management

• Manager: $164K median · $199K top base — Engineering Manager, Spending, Savings, & Investing (view JD) (6)
• Director: $201K median · $264K top base — Director, Associate General Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI (view JD) (7)

Chime salary by location

• Remote: $154K median · $264K top base — Director, Associate General Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI (view JD) (50 roles)

Remote work at Chime

100% of Chime's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Chime looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Python (11) · AWS (9) · Ruby (9) · Rails (6) · Airflow (5) · SQL (5) · Snowflake (5) · React (5) · Looker (4) · Go (4).

Benefits & perks at Chime

Commonly listed: dental (50) · 401k (50) · commuter (50) · parental (50) · gym (50).

About Chime

Chime is Series G stage · 1–10 employees · founded 2014 · HQ San Francisco, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Chime

Roles typically ask for around 6 years of experience (up to 15+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 2 that do, Bachelor's is 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; 100% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Chime total compensation signals

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

Chime hiring activity

Chime has 50 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 50 public job postings with disclosed pay. 16 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (50 in the last 90).

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Common questions

What does Chime pay?
The median pay is $154K, with a typical range of $133K–$180K, based on 50 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Chime?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Director, Associate General Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI, at $264K base.

Which team pays the most at Chime?
The security team, at a $130K median.

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 50 public Chime 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 June 25, 2026.

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