Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
People Partner: $159K median posted pay.
From 38 salary bands employers posted on 77 open people partner roles in people & recruiting. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 28 | $170K | — |
| Staff | 2 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
| Principal | 1 | — (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 |
|---|---|---|
| A.P. Moller - Maersk | 12 | — |
| Fluidstack | 4 | — |
| samsara | 4 | — |
| Asana | 3 | — |
| SmartBear | 3 | — |
| Zscaler | 2 | — |
| Danaher | 2 | — |
| Zipline | 2 | — |
| Horizon3 AI | 2 | — |
| Formenergy | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open people partner roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Employee Relations | 52 | — |
| Performance Management | 44 | — |
| Change Management | 34 | — |
| Workforce Planning | 26 | — |
| HR Coordination | 25 | — |
| Investigation | 22 | — |
| Succession Planning | 19 | — |
| Stakeholder Management | 13 | — |
| Behavioral Health Support | 12 | — |
| Offboarding | 11 | — |
Where the work is
18% of these roles are remote.
- Remote18%14 roles
- Hybrid12%9 roles
- On site60%46 roles
- Not stated10%8 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 77 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 38 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior People Partner (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.