Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Benefits Specialist: $78K median posted pay.
From 9 salary bands employers posted on 26 open benefits specialist roles in people & recruiting. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 6 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Principal | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| NICE | 2 | — |
| CDW | 1 | — |
| Ncr | 1 | — |
| Gibson Dunn | 1 | — |
| Loewshotels | 1 | — |
| Find a job at GEA | 1 | — |
| Staff Jobs at LU | 1 | — |
| Clear Channel Outdoor | 1 | — |
| ConvenientMD | 1 | — |
| North Park University | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open benefits specialist roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Benefits Administration | 25 | — |
| Payroll Processing | 16 | — |
| HIPAA Compliance | 14 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 14 | — |
| HRIS Systems | 14 | — |
| Billing | 13 | — |
| Internal Communications | 9 | — |
| Bank Reconciliation | 9 | — |
| Customer Service | 8 | — |
| Customer Retention | 7 | — |
Where the work is
4% of these roles are remote.
- Remote4%1 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site81%21 roles
- Not stated15%4 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 26 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 9 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Benefits Specialist (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in people & recruiting, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.