Workday salary: what jobs that ask for it advertise
Postings that list Workday advertise a median $153,000 (1,042 paid postings from 303 employers), against $165,000 for other postings that list skills. Matched on function, level and industry the gap is −4.7%: the raw difference comes from the roles that list it, not from the skill.
By Justin KullaLast updated
Workday pay range
From 1,042 paid postings from 303 employers that list it. Annual, in US dollars.
- Lower quarter
- $106,000
- Median
- $153,000
- Upper quarter
- $200,500
- Median without it
- $165,000
- Raw gap: −7.3%. This includes the seniority and field of the roles that list the skill.
- Gap with function, level and industry matched: −4.7% (about $3k a year), across 379 postings in 15 comparison cells.
Where Workday is asked for
The functions with the most postings that list it.
Other skills that pay well in Engineering
Skills with the highest median pay in the same function.
Questions about this data
- How much do jobs that ask for Workday pay?
- $106,000 to $200,500 for the middle half, median $153,000, from 1,042 paid postings from 303 employers. Other postings that list skills advertise a median $165,000.
- Does Workday increase pay?
- Not by this measure. Matched on function, level and industry, postings that list Workday advertise −4.7% against similar postings that do not.
- Which jobs list Workday most?
- Engineering (208 postings), Sales (149 postings), Human Resources (136 postings).
Method, download and how to cite
Data as of November 9, 2026. Rebuilt daily.
Pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posted (or stated in the posting text), converted to a year, on live U.S. professional jobs. It is advertised pay, not what anyone is paid.
A “gap, job mix matched” compares postings inside cells of the same function, level and industry, so a group is not credited for simply holding more senior or better-paid roles. It needs 150 or more postings across at least 5 cells with 15 postings on each side, and is shown as n/a otherwise. A gap is a difference in advertised pay between postings. It does not show that a skill, an industry or an employer size causes higher pay.
Download the CSV (aggregates only; no posting, employer or person is in it). Cite as: NextChapter, “Advertised pay in U.S. job postings that list Workday”, data as of November 9, 2026, https://launchyournextchapter.com/resources/pay-data/skills/workday
See also the AI skills salary premium, which uses the same method for AI skills only, and the salary by job title pages.
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