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Highest Paying Companies for Account Executive 2024

View the best paying Tech Companies for Account Executives in 2024. The rankings reflect the highest average Total Compensation, OTE and Base Salary.

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Account Executive

Account Executive Compensation

Average total comp.

$154.5K

Base salary

$89,006

Commission

$22,594

Signing + Stock

$2,663

The average Account Executive salary
is $89K in the US.

The average Account Executive total compensation package is $154.5K in the US.

Percent of Account Executives Hitting Quota

24% of Account Executives are hitting their quota

AE Salary by Years of Experience

The average salary for Account Executives with no experience / 2 years experience is $79,513

Account Executive Salary by Account Size

Account Executive total compensation typically ranges from $80K-$210K


Account Executive FAQ

Best companies for Account Executives

  1. American Express

    Company star rating out of five 2.7
    Hit Quota
    13%
    Work-Life Balance
    5
    Base salary
    $78,735
    OTE
    $153,000
  2. Amazon

    Company star rating out of five 1.4
    Hit Quota
    33%
    Work-Life Balance
    0.6
    Base salary
    $97,757
    OTE
    $152,473
  3. Elastic

    Company star rating out of five 3.1
    Hit Quota
    35%
    Work-Life Balance
    4.4
    Base salary
    $73,411
    OTE
    $139,378
  4. Google

    Company star rating out of five 2.5
    Hit Quota
    53%
    Work-Life Balance
    4.3
    Base salary
    $111,964
    OTE
    $175,975
  5. Red Hat

    Company star rating out of five 3.5
    Hit Quota
    30%
    Work-Life Balance
    4.4
    Base salary
    $118,167
    OTE
    $230,742

Best cities for Account Executives

  1. Phoenix

    Company star rating out of five 4
    Hit Quota
    17%
    Work-Life Balance
    8
    Base Salary
    $113,273
    OTE
    $250,182
  2. Utah

    Company star rating out of five 4
    Hit Quota
    14%
    Work-Life Balance
    7.4
    Base Salary
    $118,464
    OTE
    $237,143
  3. New York City

    Company star rating out of five 3.4
    Hit Quota
    27%
    Work-Life Balance
    6.7
    Base Salary
    $124,753
    OTE
    $235,036
  4. San Francisco

    Company star rating out of five 3.7
    Hit Quota
    34%
    Work-Life Balance
    6.3
    Base Salary
    $121,399
    OTE
    $233,700
  5. New York

    Company star rating out of five 3.4
    Hit Quota
    27%
    Work-Life Balance
    6.7
    Base Salary
    $123,936
    OTE
    $233,320

Account Executive Job Description

What does an Account Executive do?

An Account Executive’s main responsibility is to sell products, solutions, or services to business, consumers, or government agencies.

More specifically, Account Executives are responsible for these parts of the sales cycle:

  1. Identifying selling opportunities with new and existing customers within their territories
  2. Developing and nurturing relationships within their customer base
  3. Ultimately closing the deal for the product or solution that they sell

Depending on the company, Account Executives work with a team that consists of sales engineers, sales development representatives, subject matter experts, and business development specialists, all who aid the Account Executive in closing the deal.

When the deal does close, Account Executives are typically paid a commission. The commission percentage they are paid varies by account size, industry, and company.

An Account Executive typically starts their career as a Sales Development Representative (SDR), and moves from SMB Account Executive to Mid-Market Account Executive to Enterprise Account Executive and lastly to Strategic Account Executive. After 2-3 years as an Account Executive, you also have the option to move into Sales Management.

The top skills required to land a job as an Account Executive include: self-starter, entrepreneurial, and customer focused.


Top Paying Companies for Account Executive

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Saturday Series $165,227 $347,727 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Celonis $141,250 $283,750 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Palo $131,875 $263,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Aisera $121,000 $257,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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OutSystems $129,167 $256,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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WeWork $145,429 $255,857 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Google Cloud $117,980 $255,111 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Ping Identity $123,000 $254,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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OpenText $125,000 $252,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Coupa Software $125,000 $251,875 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Movable Ink $121,500 $251,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Snap $129,286 $247,857 Salary Information about Account Executive
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PagerDuty $124,318 $244,091 Salary Information about Account Executive
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GDS Group $93,333 $243,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Workday $113,350 $239,600 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Startup Catalyst $125,857 $235,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Paycom $92,020 $234,240 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Genesys $116,714 $232,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Galvanize $115,500 $231,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Red Hat $118,167 $230,742 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Assent $98,000 $230,700 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Segment Information Technologies $121,000 $226,429 Salary Information about Account Executive
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W.W. Grainger $85,886 $226,184 Salary Information about Account Executive
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BMC Software $114,000 $226,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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BlackLine $116,000 $226,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Zuora $117,000 $225,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Sprinklr $111,571 $222,071 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pinterest $118,833 $220,167 Salary Information about Account Executive
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TriNet $102,600 $219,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Terminus $113,063 $218,750 Salary Information about Account Executive
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WalkMe $111,071 $218,571 Salary Information about Account Executive
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LogicMonitor $106,364 $217,727 Salary Information about Account Executive
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AlphaSense $108,857 $217,349 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Latch $123,571 $217,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Forethought $113,375 $216,443 Salary Information about Account Executive
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StartupAZ $138,208 $216,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Microsoft $117,402 $215,983 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Algolia $105,800 $215,600 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pendo $105,000 $215,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Databricks $109,100 $214,571 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Everbridge $112,875 $214,125 Salary Information about Account Executive
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SailPoint $110,200 $214,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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New Relic $105,548 $212,248 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Medtronic $120,714 $212,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Khoros $106,375 $212,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Splunk $111,950 $211,813 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Capgemini $116,695 $211,786 Salary Information about Account Executive
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SAS $103,700 $211,222 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Nuance Communications $112,000 $210,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Adobe $109,049 $209,940 Salary Information about Account Executive
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MCI WorldCom $111,714 $209,857 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Handshake $106,500 $209,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Meta $130,833 $207,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Chainalysis $110,200 $207,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Braze $103,409 $206,818 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pegasystems $105,000 $206,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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MongoDB $104,250 $206,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Hitachi Vantara $120,667 $205,833 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Honeywell $119,000 $205,100 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Signifyd $105,000 $204,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Snowflake $102,667 $203,571 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Medallia $98,342 $202,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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SAP $102,232 $202,496 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Alteryx $103,588 $201,882 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Tricentis $98,000 $201,700 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Datasite $113,034 $201,502 Salary Information about Account Executive
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OwnBackup $100,417 $200,833 Salary Information about Account Executive
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MuleSoft $102,708 $200,083 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Unity $119,100 $198,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Amazon Web Services $115,365 $197,724 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Heap $98,583 $197,167 Salary Information about Account Executive
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ThoughtSpot $102,000 $197,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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VMware $105,433 $196,030 Salary Information about Account Executive
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IBM $114,955 $195,790 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Twilio $110,133 $195,134 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Bank of America $119,625 $193,125 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Rubrik $103,286 $192,857 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Xactly $99,500 $192,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Cloudflare $96,000 $189,813 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Citrix $93,490 $189,479 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Heartland $113,143 $189,429 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Chargebee $97,167 $189,167 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Tipalti $95,000 $189,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dell $103,156 $187,910 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Nutanix $97,938 $187,813 Salary Information about Account Executive
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LivePerson $97,857 $187,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Rackspace $111,286 $186,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Windstream Enterprise $100,800 $186,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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InVision $92,917 $185,833 Salary Information about Account Executive
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The $120,000 $185,714 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Hopin $106,486 $185,714 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Gong $93,269 $184,538 Salary Information about Account Executive
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SmartRent $94,375 $184,375 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pure Storage $95,929 $184,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Slack $102,117 $183,433 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Thomson Reuters $87,638 $183,023 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Brightcove $93,917 $182,917 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Asana $101,917 $182,917 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Akamai Technologies $96,333 $182,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Red $93,571 $181,429 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Box $92,130 $180,815 Salary Information about Account Executive
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bolt $111,143 $180,714 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dynatrace $90,857 $180,643 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dataminr $96,688 $180,563 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Turing.com $96,000 $180,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Navan $92,750 $180,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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UiPath $106,857 $180,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Qualtrics $94,830 $179,797 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Okta $93,946 $179,786 Salary Information about Account Executive
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AvePoint $97,000 $178,643 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Popmenu $87,500 $178,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pandora $92,500 $178,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone $100,000 $178,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Sonatype $92,857 $177,857 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Fortinet $87,167 $177,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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USI Insurance Services $120,000 $177,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Zayo $89,714 $177,239 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Recorded Future $88,500 $177,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Udemy $91,688 $176,875 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Acquia $94,167 $176,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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BetterCloud $89,444 $176,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Recurly $89,000 $176,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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NICE inContact $91,667 $176,267 Salary Information about Account Executive
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FIS $92,818 $176,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Go1 $92,000 $176,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Google $111,964 $175,975 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Lenovo $99,227 $175,636 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Stripe $105,341 $175,400 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Outreach $92,222 $174,286 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Envoy Global $82,917 $174,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Figma $109,400 $173,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Thycotic $88,667 $172,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Yext $89,594 $172,313 Salary Information about Account Executive
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BigCommerce $86,200 $172,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Salesloft $88,654 $171,923 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Sprout Social $87,500 $171,875 Salary Information about Account Executive
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CoStar Group $79,941 $171,403 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Carta $84,818 $171,364 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Procore $92,383 $171,111 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Workato $87,600 $171,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pavilion $94,611 $170,653 Salary Information about Account Executive
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HP $106,550 $170,499 Salary Information about Account Executive
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ON24 $85,609 $170,360 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Deel $95,000 $170,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Salesforce $85,928 $169,135 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Miro $87,083 $168,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Fisker Automotive $91,147 $168,147 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Crunchbase $94,686 $168,086 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Compass $109,214 $168,071 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Sisense $86,575 $167,625 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Meltwater $82,827 $167,250 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Experian $97,750 $167,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Verkada $82,855 $166,579 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Indeed.com $73,953 $166,438 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Route $78,000 $166,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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HackerOne $84,000 $166,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Affinity $88,000 $166,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Staffbase $88,960 $165,920 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Rapid7 $85,594 $165,625 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Bloomberg $132,700 $165,400 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Lucid Software $86,429 $165,321 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Trimble $80,000 $165,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Vena Solutions $86,857 $165,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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RingCentral $88,091 $164,931 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dell EMC $94,833 $164,083 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Grin $76,400 $163,800 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dropbox $99,167 $163,722 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Melio $113,000 $163,600 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Exp $105,333 $163,500 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Dun & Bradstreet $99,286 $163,143 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Quickbase $83,375 $162,750 Salary Information about Account Executive
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DAXKO $66,667 $162,708 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Amplitude $85,667 $162,556 Salary Information about Account Executive
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OneTrust $89,222 $162,444 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Avalara $80,833 $161,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Motorola Solutions $89,333 $161,556 Salary Information about Account Executive
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SHI International Corp $49,229 $160,833 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Rogers Communications $95,560 $160,740 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Docebo $82,500 $160,600 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Mimecast $87,000 $160,286 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Juniper Square $95,600 $160,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Paylocity $78,261 $159,793 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Datadog $82,111 $159,704 Salary Information about Account Executive
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LexisNexis $73,706 $159,417 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Intralinks $76,778 $159,222 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Smartsheet $79,833 $158,750 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Pluralsight $85,173 $158,356 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Scorpion $80,000 $158,333 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Zywave $75,500 $158,250 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Proofpoint $79,688 $158,125 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Siteimprove $83,833 $157,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Cvent $90,486 $157,582 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Intercom $83,438 $156,875 Salary Information about Account Executive
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tray.io $79,167 $156,667 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Aramark Uniform Services $93,400 $156,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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BrightView $95,400 $156,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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TEKsystems $83,000 $155,083 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Doma $81,750 $155,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Mr. Cooper Group $64,000 $155,000 Salary Information about Account Executive
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Stryker $95,417 $154,583 Salary Information about Account Executive