Chime Salary

💰 $159K–$237K salary range

Median: $181K  ·  Based on 75 public Chime job postings  ·  Updated October 23, 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

• Sr. Director, Product Management — $309K–$383K · Spending, Saving, & Investing Product
• Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety — $223K–$373K · Trust and Safety Engineering
• Director Engineering — $269K–$373K · AI & App Experience Engineering
• Director, Growth Engineering — $269K–$373K · Growth Engineering
• Staff AI/ML Engineer — $246K–$340K · Data Science & Machine Learning
• Senior Director, Product and Brand Communications — $246K–$340K · External Communications
• Staff Engineer, Growth — $223K–$308K · Growth Engineering
• Senior Application Security Engineer — $213K–$295K · Security
• AI/ML Engineer — $125K–$292K · Data Science & Machine Learning
• Principal Product Designer, Lending — $202K–$290K · Product Design

Chime salary by department

• trust and safety engineering: $237K median · $373K top base — Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety (view JD) (5 roles)
• data engineering: $223K median · $275K top base — Tech Lead Manager, Data Integration Platform (view JD) (5 roles)
• growth marketing: $173K median · $275K top base — Director, Lifecycle Marketing Operations (view JD) (9 roles)
• platform engineering: $159K median · $275K top base — Tech Lead Manager, Platform (view JD) (7 roles)
• corporate compliance: $121K median · $175K top base — Business Control Manager (view JD) (5 roles)

Chime engineering & product salary by seniority

• Mid: $159K median · $292K top base — AI/ML Engineer (view JD) (13)
• Senior: $212K median · $295K top base — Senior Application Security Engineer (view JD) (21)
• Staff: $256K median · $373K top base — Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety (view JD) (6)

Chime salary by location

• Remote: $181K median · $383K top base — Sr. Director, Product Management (view JD) (74 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: Ruby (19) · Python (18) · AWS (14) · SQL (14) · Rails (13) · Looker (10) · Go (10) · Snowflake (8) · React (8) · Airflow (6).

Benefits & perks at Chime

Commonly listed: commuter (74) · parental (74) · gym (74) · dental (17) · 401k (17).

About Chime

Chime is Public 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 12+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 1 that do, PhD 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; 99% of these postings reference equity (rsu). 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 75 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 75 public job postings with disclosed pay. 34 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (59 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 2 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does Chime pay?
The median pay is $181K, with a typical range of $159K–$237K, based on 75 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 Sr. Director, Product Management, at $309K–$383K base.

Which team pays the most at Chime?
The trust and safety engineering team, at a $237K 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 75 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 October 23, 2026.

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