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Traversal Salary

Traversal pays a median of $225K ($210K–$238K) across 31 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $210K–$238K salary range

Median: $225K  ·  Based on 31 public Traversal job postings  ·  Updated October 26, 2026


This Traversal 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

Traversal · pay benchmark · updated October 26, 2026
$225K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$210K–$238K
Typical range
$400K view JD
Highest base · Senior Legal Counsel
31
Open roles
~5 yrs
Typical exp.
+6
20 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 71% of roles mention equity
Salary by department · median & top base
sales
$231K · $300K top (8)
field engineering
$225K (5)
engineering
$225K · $300K top (5)
operations
$210K · $400K top (5)
marketing
$175K · $300K top (5)
Pay by location
New York $225K (18)Remote $225K (12)
Highest-paying skills
Python $238KKubernetes $225KPostgreSQL $225KLLMs $225KDatadog $225KPinecone $225KTerraform $225K

Highest-paying open roles at Traversal

Traversal salary by department

  • sales: $231K median · $300K top base — Revenue Operations & Strategy (view JD) (8 roles)
  • field engineering: $225K median (5 roles)
  • engineering: $225K median · $300K top base — Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (view JD) (5 roles)
  • operations: $210K median · $400K top base — Senior Legal Counsel (view JD) (5 roles)
  • marketing: $175K median · $300K top base — Senior Manager, Product Marketing (view JD) (5 roles)

Traversal salary by location

  • New York: $225K median · $400K top base — Senior Legal Counsel (view JD) (18 roles)
  • Remote: $225K median · $300K top base — Revenue Operations & Strategy (view JD) (12 roles)

Remote work at Traversal

39% of Traversal's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $231K median vs $225K onsite.

What Traversal looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: AWS (4) · Kubernetes (4) · Python (3) · FastAPI (3) · PostgreSQL (3) · TypeScript (2) · React (2) · Terraform (1) · Go (1) · Rust (1).

About Traversal

Traversal is Late Stage stage · 11–50 employees · founded 2023 · HQ New York, New York. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Traversal

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 8+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 2 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; 71% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Traversal total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 88% include commission; on-target earnings run about $300K where stated (10 roles); common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Traversal hiring activity

Traversal has 31 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 31 public job postings with disclosed pay. 6 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (20 in the last 90).

💼 Similar companies hiring

Compare Traversal's pay with companies in the same space:

CompanyMedian payvs TraversalStage
SpaceX$143K↓ -37%Public
CGS Federal$126K↓ -44%—
Blue Origin$160K↓ -29%Venture-backed
Accenture Federal Services$149K↓ -34%—
OpenAI$308K↑ +37%Late Stage
Boeing$132K↓ -41%Public

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Common questions

What does Traversal pay?
The median pay is $225K, with a typical range of $210K–$238K, based on 31 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Traversal?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Senior Legal Counsel, at $200K–$400K base.

Which team pays the most at Traversal?
The sales team, at a $231K 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 31 public Traversal 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 26, 2026.

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