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Global Salesforce Salary Information!

March 8, 2018

Preface: this post is part of the Salesforce Careers series.

Ever wonder how much you can and should be making in the Salesforce industry?
…well this is the most important thing you’ll read all month!

These are the latest salary numbers from 2018 – the best you’ll find in the Salesforce Lightning era.

Special thanks to Maria Baranowska, my favorite person over at Mason Frank International for sharing this report with me! Mason Frank International is a Salesforce recruiting company.

Quick highlights:

  • Developers and architects continue to make significantly more than others, at all levels
  • Freelance developers and architects can make CEO level salaries @ $400k per year!
  • Overall salaries have not dropped from previous year’s, though there are more Salesforce professionals than ever
  • Everyone in the Ohana, on average, is making six figures! We are a very wealthy family!
  • 73% of all Salesforce professionals have at least one certification

Summary Infographic:

Full Report:

2018 Global Salesforce Salary Report

Conclusion:

If you think you’re not getting paid enough, my advice:

  1. Get more Salesforce certifications!
  2. Show the full report to your boss
  3. If all else fails, consider finding a new job

Note: A Salesforce recruiter helped me find my Salesforce dream job in the past, so I generally recommend using one!

Hope this helps you!
David

P.S. I’ve worked with various Salesforce recruiting companies and have hired many Salesforce professionals myself – I definitely vouch for these numbers. Also in case you’re wondering, I don’t do any paid ads on this site =) Things only get posted if I think it’s good stuff!

27 Comments
Joy Atuzie
November 3, 2022 @ 8:23 am

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Valon Consulting Group is a digital consultancy agency that provides business consulting, project management, and Salesforce admin services to businesses in Texas, USA.

I did a quick research on your blog and came across a lot of high-quality content & articles. And I have a few topic ideas that could be included;

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Kindly let me know how much you charge for a guest post or dofollow link exchange opportunity. We are open to offering the same and returning the favour on our blog – http://www.valonconsultinggroup.com/blog

Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks

Regards,
Joy from Valon
Digital Marketing Consultant

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Sochy Eisenberg
June 6, 2018 @ 7:31 pm

Thanks David for this post and this blog in general.

I’ll agree with the others that the numbers in this report are very inflated. Junior Admin earning 105k in NYC is simply not true, that cannot be had! The mid and senior numbers also seem very high.

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    David Liu
    June 6, 2018 @ 9:26 pm

    Honestly I think it’s because it takes into account the salaries of hourly contractors, who make almost double what non-contractors make!

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Nikita Sawant
April 2, 2018 @ 5:43 am

Hey David!

Wow, what a roundup. As impressive as these figures are, I would love to read about how Salesforce services are valued in more countries such as India. As a developing country with Salesforce consultants such as Cymetrix Software leading the CRM revolution, India is unbridled potential! Any thoughts on this?

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Lance
March 25, 2018 @ 5:26 pm

I kind of feel the number in Australia is way too high. For me, I wouldn’t think a junior Salesforce Dev in Australia can make 120k. I know many companies in Australia who pays mid-senior level less than that.

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SfDC Admin
March 13, 2018 @ 2:03 pm

Can you include Canada as well so I can show my boss?

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    David Liu
    March 13, 2018 @ 9:05 pm

    Wish I had that info!

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    Maria
    March 14, 2018 @ 1:41 am

    Hopefully Mason Frank can include this in next year’s survey. This is based on where responses to the survey came from. Canada is an increasingly growing market so perhaps in 2019, there will be more input from Salesforce professionals :)

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PJ
March 13, 2018 @ 11:47 am

David…Is there a rule of thumb for salary requirements for an admin whether on a W2 or 1099?

Thanks

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    David Liu
    March 13, 2018 @ 9:05 pm

    They split it out in the full report – check it out!

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Arshad Shaikh
March 12, 2018 @ 9:35 pm

Why don’t you guys consider Salary survey of India?

Let the truth come out.

Indian admins and developers are paid far less than these figures. They are not even in somewhere in the ratio.

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    David Liu
    March 12, 2018 @ 9:41 pm

    Maybe I’ll do a separate salary just for India!

    If anyone is interested, reply below!

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      Arshad Shaikh
      March 13, 2018 @ 11:26 pm

      That sounds great :)

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      Maria
      March 14, 2018 @ 1:45 am

      Mason Frank don’t currently recruit in India and therefore couldn’t properly verify the salary information which was submitted. However, data on that would be amazing and we’ll be sure to share with the ecosystem :)

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      Vishal
      March 18, 2018 @ 6:09 am

      That’s Sounds Great

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      Adarsh shrivastava
      June 8, 2018 @ 11:27 pm

      Yes David, it will really help us .

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      Adarsh shrivastava
      June 8, 2018 @ 11:29 pm

      Yes, it would be really helpful.

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      Avinash
      November 10, 2018 @ 5:44 am

      Thats great! Waiting for your report of India.

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JJ
March 12, 2018 @ 7:27 am

Mason Frank’s salary surveys have been, historically, very criticized as skewing too high on the average. Which, makes sense, because they are trying to sell people on SFDC (though every interaction I’ve had with Mason Frank has been extremely poor and unprofessional). The Mid/Senior numbers are … fine. But Junior numbers are too high for the general industry.

Can we also agree that the whole Ohana thing is super cringe-worthy? I’ve been in the SFDC ecosystem for over 10 years and I’m embarrassed every time I have to interact with the branding. The appropriation of Hawaiian culture by a white dude makes my skin crawl.

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    David Liu
    March 12, 2018 @ 9:21 pm

    =P

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    David Porter
    June 28, 2018 @ 1:58 pm

    couldn’t agree with you more

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    Bradley
    April 27, 2019 @ 12:59 am

    I agree the whole Ohana thing, and the trailhead branding looks like Salesforce is marketing to children. The only thing that could be worse would be if the characters were animated into a cartoon.

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RC
March 11, 2018 @ 4:39 pm

Hi David,
I have 4 Salesforce certifications and have worked for 3/4 non profits helping them with small Salesforce assignments for little over a year. I am in the US and trying to find a paid job as Salesforce Administrator or Salesforce BA. I always get inspired reading your website, but I am not able to find any recruiter who would be able to help me find a good Salesforce opportunity, as my experience is too little for them. Could you please advise. Thanks in advance!
Best regards, RC

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    David Liu
    March 12, 2018 @ 9:23 pm

    Your resume probably needs work =) I think I’ll do a section on that some time!

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      Greg Mannon
      March 29, 2018 @ 6:53 am

      David, Let me know if you need assistance with doing a resume section. I was an IT Recruiter before learning Salesforce. Happy to help.

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        David Liu
        April 1, 2018 @ 10:04 pm

        TOTALLY want to do this soon!!!!

        Reply
Mh
March 9, 2018 @ 4:49 pm

I am waiting for any position in android org at google

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