Workday jobs pay $135K at the median. The employer can double it.
We read 30 live Workday job postings that list pay, from analysts to platform managers. The module matters less than you might think. Who is hiring matters a lot: the tech companies in our sample posted about twice what public universities and city government did for similar work.
What a Workday job is posted at in 2026
Plenty of salary sites will give you a single "Workday analyst" number. We wanted to see what employers are actually putting in their postings right now. On October 16, 2026 we collected 30 live U.S. Workday job postings that state pay: 24 with an annual salary range and 6 with an hourly rate, mostly contract roles posted by staffing firms. They cover HCM, Payroll, Financials, Adaptive Planning, integrations, reporting, Prism and security, from mid-level analysts to managers.2
For each salaried posting we took the midpoint of its range. The median midpoint is $135,000. The median bottom of the range is $117,475 and the median top is $150,329.2
For context, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts median pay for computer systems analysts, the closest federal category to most Workday analyst work, at $105,850 (May 2025).1 Our sample's median midpoint sits about 28% above that. The two numbers measure different things, though: BLS reports what people in a broad occupation earn, while a posting shows what one employer plans to offer a new hire for a specialized skill.
Financials and integrations sit at the top. Payroll sits at the bottom.
We grouped the 24 salaried postings by their main Workday area. Each bar runs from the group's median range bottom to its median range top, so you can see where a typical posting in that group lands.
Typical posted salary range, by Workday area
TeamUp sample of 24 salaried U.S. postings, checked October 16, 2026. Hover or tap a bar for the details.
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| Workday area | Postings | Median bottom | Median top | Median midpoint | Full span |
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Financials and Adaptive Planning postings had the highest median midpoint in our sample, at $164,775. That group includes two consulting roles, a Big 4 Adaptive Planning manager and a Workday partner's Financials lead, which pull it up. Integrations and reporting came next at $145,550, and every posting in that group started at $118,900 or more.2
Payroll was the lowest, at a $112,500 median midpoint, but it is also our smallest group with three postings. One is a staffing firm's analyst opening at $60,000 to $75,000, the lowest range in the sample.2
The same skills, priced twice as high
The bigger split is by employer. Five postings came from large tech companies: an AI company (two roles), a streaming company, an online travel company and a semiconductor maker. Their median midpoint was $237,500. Four came from public universities and a city government, with a median midpoint of $116,748. The other 15, from consulting, finance, healthcare, law, retail, education, energy and staffing firms, landed in between at $132,500.2
The gap shows up even for similar titles. A public university posted a Workday financial reporting analyst at $70,000 to $80,000. An AI company posted a senior Workday Financials systems analyst at $205,000 to $270,000. A streaming company posted a Workday integration engineer at $270,000 to $410,000, the highest range we found.2
Median midpoint, by employer type
24 salaried postings, October 20262
Median midpoint, by level
Level assigned by TeamUp from title and years required2
Seniority moves pay in the direction you would expect, but the steps are uneven. The jump from senior to lead was small in our sample, under $8,000 at the median. "Senior" on its own covered midpoints from about $125,500 at a public university to $340,000 at the streaming company.2
Show all 24 salaried postings
| Role (as posted) | Area | Level | Employer type | Range |
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Links to every posting are in the raw data file.
Read the range, not just the top number
The typical posting in our sample had a $30,000 gap between its minimum and maximum, and its top was about 32% above its bottom. Some were far wider. A Big 4 firm posted one national range of $144,600 to $265,100 for an Adaptive Planning manager across 60 U.S. locations. A financial regulator posted four separate ranges by state, from $97,700 to $176,100 in its lowest-cost states up to $112,300 to $211,400 in New York and New Jersey.2 When a range is that wide, location and level usually explain most of it.
Contract roles are usually priced by the hour. The six hourly Workday postings we found were all from staffing firms, and most were labeled contract, with posted rates from $51 to $123 an hour and a median midpoint of $72.75.2 These are staffing-firm-published rates for their own openings, so they show what the contractor is offered, not what the client pays the firm.
Posted hourly rates, Workday roles via staffing firms
Six postings by staffing firms, October 2026. Bar shows the midpoint; label shows the posted range.2
What to do with these numbers
Price against the employers you compete with
Your real benchmark is the companies your candidates could join instead. In our sample, large tech employers posted about twice what public employers did for comparable Workday work.
Don't anchor on a generic analyst number
Our sample's median midpoint was about 28% above the BLS median for computer systems analysts. Specialized Workday skills are posted above the broad occupation.
Name the module and the level
Financials and integrations roles ran highest in our sample, and lead and manager roles stepped up again. A precise title and range helps the right candidates self-select.
Explain wide ranges
If your range spans $100,000 or more, say what drives it, such as location or level. Candidates read the top number and may walk away when the offer comes in near the bottom.
Public employers: sell what pays besides salary
Universities and government in our sample posted the lowest ranges. Lead with scope, stability, schedule and what the person will get to build.
Candidates: compare like with like
Check an offer against postings from the same kind of employer and level. A public university range and an AI company range for the same title are different markets.
Pay is one part of a search. For how long Workday roles take to fill, see our 58-day benchmark report.
Hiring for a Workday role?
TeamUp recruits only for Workday, across every module. Candidates are screened by former Workday consultants on what they have actually configured, so your team spends its interviews on people who can do the work.
TeamUp is a new firm and this report does not use TeamUp placement data. Every figure comes from the public sources below. Where we combined figures into an estimate (the sample medians, groups and levels), the method is stated next to it. Pay and contract figures published by staffing firms are labeled as such.
Sample method: on October 16, 2026 we collected live U.S. job postings with "Workday" in the title or as the core requirement that state a pay range, from employer career sites (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby), a city government site and the Dice job board. We kept 24 salaried and 6 hourly postings and dropped closed, expired or non-U.S. postings and ones with no stated range. Midpoint = (minimum + maximum) ÷ 2. Where a posting gave ranges by location, we used the lowest minimum and highest maximum. Four salaried postings were direct-hire or permanent roles listed by staffing firms on behalf of unnamed clients; all six hourly postings were from staffing firms. Areas and levels were assigned by TeamUp from each posting's title and requirements. Advertised ranges are not actual pay, and a sample this size can move with a few postings.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Computer Systems Analysts (median pay, May 2025).
- TeamUp, Workday pay sample, October 2026 (30 live public job postings with stated pay, checked October 16, 2026; each row links to its posting).