Duolingo Salary

💰 $180K–$229K salary range

Median: $215K  ·  Based on 47 public Duolingo job postings  ·  Updated October 8, 2026

This Duolingo 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

Highest-paying open roles at Duolingo

• VP of Product, Growth and Monetization — $368K–$613K · Product Management
• VP of Strategy and Corporate Development — $330K–$550K · Strategy + Business Operations
• Senior Director of Engineering, New Subjects — $296K–$444K · Software Engineering
• Senior Creative Director, Marketing — $237K–$355K · Marketing and Communications
• Staff AI Research Engineer — $221K–$331K · AI + Machine Learning Engineering
• Senior Data Science Manager, User Growth — $204K–$306K · Data Science + Analytics
• Senior Engineering Manager, Product — $204K–$306K · Engineering
• Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform — $204K–$306K · Software Engineering
• Staff Product Designer, Monetization — $200K–$300K · Product Design
• Director of Ad Platform Operations — $196K–$294K · Scaling Operations

Duolingo salary by department

• software engineering: $215K median · $444K top base — Senior Director of Engineering, New Subjects (view JD) (10 roles)
• product management: $215K median · $613K top base — VP of Product, Growth and Monetization (view JD) (6 roles)
• marketing and communications: $182K median · $355K top base — Senior Creative Director, Marketing (view JD) (5 roles)

Duolingo engineering & product salary by seniority

• Senior: $215K median · $306K top base — Senior Data Science Manager, User Growth (view JD) (16)
• Staff: $227K median · $331K top base — Staff AI Research Engineer (view JD) (5)

Duolingo salary by location

• New York: $215K median · $613K top base — VP of Product, Growth and Monetization (view JD) (36 roles)
• Remote: $190K median · $275K top base — Director of Ad Sales - West (view JD) (3 roles)

Remote work at Duolingo

33% of Duolingo's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Duolingo looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Python (6) · SQL (5) · Product Roadmap (4) · Experimentation (4) · Kotlin (4) · R (3) · AWS (3) · Sourcing (3) · Marketing Analytics (2) · Kubernetes (2).

About Duolingo

Duolingo is Public stage · 501–1,000 employees · founded 2011 · HQ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Duolingo

Roles typically ask for around 7 years of experience (up to 20+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 7 that do, Master's and Bachelor's 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; 100% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Duolingo 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.

Duolingo hiring activity

Duolingo has 47 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 47 public job postings with disclosed pay. 4 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (33 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 2 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does Duolingo pay?
The median pay is $215K, with a typical range of $180K–$229K, based on 47 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Duolingo?
One of the highest-paying open roles is VP of Product, Growth and Monetization, at $368K–$613K base.

Which team pays the most at Duolingo?
The software engineering team, at a $215K 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 47 public Duolingo 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 8, 2026.

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