Toast Salary

💰 $115K–$165K salary range

Median: $128K  ·  Based on 171 public Toast job postings  ·  Updated June 9, 2026

This Toast 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 Toast

• Senior Director of Product, Payments Acceptance — $445K · R & D
• Principal Software Engineer — $368K · R & D
• Senior Director, Global Compensation — $360K · G & A
• Enterprise Account Executive - Sports and Entertainment — $347K · Sales
• Inside District Manager, SMB — $338K · Sales
• Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Finance — $309K · R & D

Toast salary by department

• R & D: $304K median (25 roles)
• G & A: $139K median (18 roles)
• Sales: $128K median (131 roles)
• Customer Success: $108K median (4 roles)

Toast salary by seniority

• Mid: $118K median (118)
• Senior: $248K median (19)
• Staff: $307K median (20)
• Manager: $165K median (23)

Toast salary by location

• Remote: $248K median (47 roles)
• Boston: $108K median (6 roles)
• Dallas: $115K median (5 roles)
• New York: $154K median (4 roles)
• San Francisco: $148K median (3 roles)

Remote work at Toast

27% of Toast's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Toast looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Java (14) · Kotlin (12) · React (7) · GraphQL (4) · JavaScript (4) · Snowflake (4) · CI/CD (4) · AWS (3) · Python (3) · BigQuery (3).

About Toast

Toast is Public stage · 5,001–10,000 employees · founded 2011 · HQ Boston, Massachusetts. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Toast

Roles typically ask for around 4 years of experience (up to 15+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 11 that do, Bachelor's and Master's and Associate's are most common.

Base salary vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are base salary only. Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 93% of these postings reference equity (options). Equity is not included in the medians above.

Toast total compensation signals

Beyond base salary, postings indicate: 100% include commission; common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Toast hiring activity

Toast has 181 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 182 public job postings with disclosed pay. 181 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (181 in the last 90).

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Government wage data

For corroboration, U.S. Department of Labor certified wage filings (FY2023) for Toast show a median of $143K, ranging $125K–$185K, across 25 filings. Reported separately from — never blended with — the job-posting median above.

Common questions

What does Toast pay?
The median base salary is $128K, with a typical range of $115K–$179K, based on 182 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Toast?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Senior Director of Product, Payments Acceptance, at $445K base.

Which team pays the most at Toast?
The R & D team, at a $304K 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

USD base salary aggregated from 182 public Toast 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 10, 2026.

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