Workday salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at Workday is $210K a year, from 101 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $185K to $239K. The median posted range is $168K to $252K. The median at Workday is 11% above the median of all companies ($190K).
- Median posted base pay
- $210K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $185K to $239K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $171K to $279K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 101
Workday pay by level
Posted base pay at Workday, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated20 jobs$171K$160K to $185K
- Senior49 jobs$205K$190K to $220K
- Principal29 jobs$245K$228K to $279K
- Director+3 jobs$269K$259K to $287K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $137K | $160K | $171K | $185K | $202K | 20 |
| Senior | $174K | $190K | $205K | $220K | $243K | 49 |
| Principal | $218K | $228K | $245K | $279K | $294K | 29 |
| Director+ | $253K | $259K | $269K | $287K | $297K | 3 |
Workday pay by job type
The median for each job type at Workday, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at Workday | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineering | $205K | $185K to $226K | $190K | +8% | 31 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $220K | $189K to $239K | $192K | +14% | 25 |
| Product management | $220K | $210K to $245K | $199K | +11% | 17 |
| ML / AI engineering | $234K | $204K to $285K | $215K | +9% | 12 |
| Security engineering | $206K | $197K to $231K | $193K | +7% | 8 |
| Solutions engineering | $158K | $141K to $193K | $180K | −13% | 8 |
| Inference & ML systems | $205K | $200K to $240K | $225K | −9% | 5 |
Open jobs at Workday with posted pay
These are the 20 jobs with the highest posted pay, from 101 open jobs with posted pay. Each range is the base pay that Workday posted.
- Sr. Principal Architect - Observability$262K to $393K
- Sr Manager, AI Engineering$255K to $383K
- Principal Software Engineer, Agentic UX$246K to $370K
- Principal/Senior AI Engineer - Agent Factory$246K to $370K
- Sr. Director Product Management - Leader Enablement & Coaching$244K to $365K
- Sr Principal Product Manager, Customer Zero$232K to $348K
- Principal ML Engineer, Admin Central$228K to $342K
- Principal/Senior AI Engineer$228K to $342K
- Principal Distributed Systems Engineer$223K to $334K
- Principal Distributed Systems Engineer - Observability$223K to $334K
- Principal Software Development Engineer - Data Cloud$223K to $334K
- Director, Change Enablement & UX (Business Technology)$215K to $323K
- Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering$210K to $314K
- Senior AI Engineer$208K to $312K
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer$206K to $310K
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Developer Platform$206K to $310K
- Prinicipal Forward Deployed Engineer$206K to $310K
- Senior Manager, Product Management$204K to $306K
- Senior Manager, Product Management - Business Technology GTM | Customer Support$204K to $306K
- Senior Principal Cybersecurity GRC - Public Sector, US Federal$201K to $302K
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.