Tech salaries at payment giants: How Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa pay their tech talent

• Speed and security of a payments network can make or break a company like Amex or Mastercard.
• Most tech roles at Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa get paid six-figure salaries.
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For any payments company, tech is a huge part of the budget. Speed and security of a network can make or break a company like Amex or Mastercard. And as payments become increasingly digital, these infrastructure giants have to keep maintaining and updating rails and systems.

That means a large part of payments companies’ headcount lies in tech.

Insider recently created a searchable database of the last three years of salary disclosures, collected from the USCIS website, curated to a range of more than 250 companies that Insider reporters regularly cover. The data is filterable by employer name, type of job, and job location, catching the differences between software engineers in Silicon Valley and Miami.

We used this database to see how much Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa pay their technology employees. The data only includes base pay, not bonuses or equity awards.

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