Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Starbucks Barista: $45K median posted pay.
From 13 salary bands employers posted on 111 open starbucks barista roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Target | 91 | — |
| Brookshires | 10 | — |
| Hy-Vee | 7 | — |
| Vail Health Hospital | 2 | — |
| Sbcos | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open starbucks barista roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Barista Skills | 111 | — |
| Food Safety | 101 | — |
| Cash Handling | 93 | — |
| Cashiering | 90 | — |
| OSHA Safety Compliance | 90 | — |
| RF Scanning | 88 | — |
| Refrigeration | 88 | — |
| Customer Service | 13 | — |
| Upselling | 10 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 8 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site99%110 roles
- Not stated1%1 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 111 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 13 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Starbucks Barista (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in hospitality & food, 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.