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These are rollercoaster times for Airbnb. Earlier this year CEO Brian Chesky said he expected the unicorn's revenue to drop to less than half of what it was in 2019 as the COVID-19 pandemic drives away business and in May, he laid-off about 25% of his workforce.
But things slowly improved for the rental giant as the pandemic wore on. Although the company's revenue declined almost 70 percent in the second quarter year-over-year, global vacation rentals from companies including Airbnb bounced back up 127 percent from a low in April.
Rumours have abounded that Airbnb would go ahead with its long-expected IPO anyway this year. In August, the company confirmed that it had filed the initial confidential paperwork to the SEC, although it did not share when it planned to go public or any other details.
IPO or not, Airbnb is a massive operation with a valuation still well into the billions. And now, months after its layoffs, Airbnb is hiring again, particularly in engineering, but also for data science and a smattering of other roles.
So how much can you make working for Airbnb? Companies have to disclose to the federal government how much they pay workers through the H-1B visa program, an important part of how Silicon Valley gathers talent from around the world. The Office of Foreign Labor Certification makes that information public annually.
Business Insider went through data released in 2020, which included jobs hired for up to the last six years, to discover how much Airbnb pays designers, data scientists, and other roles. In a word, it pays them well.
This is annual salary data only and does not include other compensation such as stock or bonuses. When there were multiple entries of hires for the same title, we included the range of salaries paid. Although not a complete picture of how much the tech giant pays its workers, the information still provides rare insight into an otherwise private company.
Check out how much Airbnb is willing to pay its workers below.
Engineering: Airbnb hired an engineering manager for $303,250
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Airbnb was mostly on the hunt for people to help manage its platform. The software giant hired 81 "software engineers" with unspecified specialties, by far the most recurring role in the data that Business Insider surveyed. And the highest-paid role across all the data was for an engineering manager.
Engineering manager: $303,250 - $204,499
Software engineer: $264,750 - $130,000
Systems architect: $240,400
Technical solution architect: $235,000
Senior business systems architect: $220,500
Cloud integration engineer: $220,000
Senior software engineer: $213,420
Site reliability engineer: $200,000
Technical lead finance systems: $175,000
Data management: Airbnb hired a data scientist for $230,000
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As a company with global operations, Airbnb generates a lot of business data. 18 of the 147 positions filled by overseas applicants were for jobs related to data and most of them were for data scientists.
Data scientist: $230,000- $128,000
Data engineer: $220,000
Data science manager: $201,900
Data visualization engineer: $180,000
UX and frontend roles: Airbnb hired a frontend engineer for $215,000
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Airbnb was looking for people to manage its customer-facing software. A frontend engineer is a person who handles the parts of Airbnb's platform that customers interact with and experience designers deal with the user interface (UX).
Frontend engineer: $215,000
Experience designer: $181,980 - $143,500
Business roles: Airbnb hired a director of FP&A marketing for $280,000
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Although most of Airbnb's visa hires were for engineering-oriented tech jobs, a small but sizable chunk of positions were for business roles in areas like program management, product management, human resources and marketing.
Director financial planning and analysis marketing: $280,000
Technical program manager: $250,000
Product manager: $235,000 - $166,800
Product manager development tools: $220,000
Creative director growth and traffic: $215,000
Talent partner lead technology: $215,000 - $175,000
Third party risk analyst: $155,000
Other roles: Airbnb hired a category director for $230,000
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Airbnb was hiring in many other areas, including finance.
Category director: $230,000
Creative director growth and traffic: $215,000
Third party risk analyst: $155,000