Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
People Operations Specialist: $107K median posted pay.
From 12 salary bands employers posted on 44 open people operations 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 | 2 | — (1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Air Apps | 21 | — |
| Djeholdings | 2 | — |
| Happyrobot Inc. | 2 | — |
| tripactions | 1 | — |
| Figure | 1 | — |
| DensityAI | 1 | — |
| TeamSnap | 1 | — |
| Alector | 1 | — |
| Bitvavo | 1 | — |
| Agility Robotics | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open people operations specialist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| HR Coordination | 35 | — |
| Payroll Processing | 29 | — |
| Benefits Administration | 24 | — |
| Applicant Tracking Systems | 21 | — |
| Candidate Experience | 21 | — |
| Childcare | 19 | — |
| HRIS Systems | 11 | — |
| Offboarding | 9 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 6 | — |
| Employee Relations | 4 | — |
Where the work is
45% of these roles are remote.
- Remote45%20 roles
- Hybrid11%5 roles
- On site39%17 roles
- Not stated5%2 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 44 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 12 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior People Operations 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.