Toast, Salary

💰 $185K–$237K salary range

Median: $205K  ·  Based on 239 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 — $278K–$445K · R & D
• Inside District Manager, SMB — $338K · Sales
• Senior Principal Software Engineer, GTM — $246K–$394K · R & D
• Principal Engineer, Card Readers Team — $230K–$368K · R & D
• Principal Machine Learning Engineer — $230K–$368K · R & D
• Principal Software Engineer — $230K–$368K · R & D

Toast, salary by department

• R & D: $304K median (37 roles)
• G & A: $189K median (18 roles)
• Sales: $185K median (175 roles)
• Marketing: $184K median (3 roles)
• Customer Success: $152K median (4 roles)

Toast, salary by seniority

• Mid: $185K median (160)
• Senior: $254K median (22)
• Staff: $309K median (27)
• Manager: $264K median (26)

Toast, salary by location

• Remote: $249K median (70 roles)
• Boston: $173K median (6 roles)
• New York: $237K median (4 roles)
• San Francisco: $159K median (3 roles)

Remote work at Toast,

32% of Toast,'s disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Toast, looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Java (22) · Kotlin (18) · React (11) · AWS (8) · GraphQL (7) · Python (6) · JavaScript (5) · PostgreSQL (5) · CI/CD (4) · Snowflake (4).

About Toast,

Toast, is Public stage · 11–50 employees · founded 2024 · HQ New York, New York. 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 17 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 221 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 239 public job postings with disclosed pay. 89 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (239 in the last 90).

Common questions

What does Toast, pay?
The median base salary is $205K, with a typical range of $185K–$237K, based on 239 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 $278K–$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 239 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 9, 2026.

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