What Gravity Payments Expects for an $80,000 Salary

By a labor-market reporter covering hiring standards and fintech employment
Last reviewed: July 10, 2026

Gravity Payments had seven active vacancies on July 10, 2026, and every one started at $80,000. Yet the entry requirements varied sharply. One support opening preferred a bachelor’s degree and one to three years of experience, while an integration role paying up to $100,000 listed coding ability and payment-application experience without publishing a degree or minimum number of years.

The listings reveal a hiring model built more around demonstrated capability than uniform credentials. That can widen access for workers without a conventional degree, but it also makes job titles less useful: “support,” “sales” and “account management” positions include technical troubleshooting, revenue generation, equipment installation and responsibility for client retention.

Seven jobs, one common starting point

Gravity’s active Greenhouse board contained three remote technical or account roles and four geographically assigned outside-sales jobs. The Bilingual Technical Support Analyst topped out at $85,000, the Integration Engineer at $100,000 and the Technical Account Manager at $120,000. Outside-sales ceilings ranged from $85,000 to $90,000.

Sources: Gravity Payments job descriptions reviewed July 10, 2026.

The company calls many of these qualifications “preferred” or “desired,” rather than hard minimums. The application still screens for specific capabilities. Support candidates must confirm English and Spanish fluency, while integration applicants must describe work with payment applications or third-party developer APIs and identify programming languages they can write or debug.

Does Gravity Payments require a college degree?

Not across the reviewed openings.

The Bilingual Technical Support Analyst posting prefers an applicable bachelor’s degree plus one to three years of related experience, but it also accepts an equivalent combination of education and experience. The Integration Engineer and Technical Account Manager postings do not state a degree requirement. Boise and Los Angeles sales listings focus on prior customer-facing or sales work rather than a college credential.

This broadly aligns with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ description of computer support hiring. BLS says computer-user support workers often need some college coursework but not necessarily a degree, while applicants may qualify with a high school diploma and relevant information-technology certifications. More technical network-support positions frequently ask for an associate’s degree, and some employers prefer a bachelor’s degree.

Gravity appears more flexible on formal education than many software employers. BLS says software developers and software quality-assurance analysts typically need a bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field. Gravity’s Integration Engineer listing asks for coding familiarity and payment-integration experience but publishes no mandatory degree.

That is meaningful access.

It is not evidence that the work is entry-level.

The support job is broader than ordinary customer service

Gravity’s Bilingual Technical Support Analyst serves as the interface between merchants, point-of-sale systems and credit-card processors. The employee must investigate complex system-level software problems, handle escalations, update technical documentation, participate in product discussions and write support materials such as technical specifications and FAQs. Weekend and after-hours flexibility is preferred.

The role also requires Spanish fluency and experience troubleshooting networking, Windows products and iOS systems. Gravity describes the worker as operating with minimal direction and making decisions on matters of significance within business operations.

That responsibility set sits above a basic call-center job.

BLS reported a May 2024 median of $60,340 for computer-user support specialists and $73,340 for computer-network support specialists. The finance-and-insurance medians were $62,420 and $78,630, respectively. Gravity’s $80,000 starting salary is $19,660 above the national user-support median but only $1,370 above the finance-sector network-support median.

BLS projects total computer-support employment to decline 3% from 2024 to 2034, including a 4% decline for user-support specialists and 2% growth for network-support specialists. It nevertheless projects approximately 50,500 openings annually as workers transfer or leave the occupation.

Gravity’s listing looks less vulnerable than the simplest support jobs because it emphasizes escalations, complex payment software and work that requires judgment. BLS expects automated tools such as chatbots to reduce demand for routine troubleshooting while leaving complex cases to human specialists.

The Integration Engineer title hides a hybrid role

Gravity’s Integration Engineer provides high-tier support to software partners and their developers, oversees integration releases, maintains documentation, handles escalated problems and collaborates with engineering teams on feature priorities. Candidates should be able to write at least one programming language and read several, with C#, React and Swift supplied as examples.

The posting does not require the employee to spend the day building a standalone software product. It combines developer support, implementation, release coordination, troubleshooting and partner management.

That makes BLS matching difficult.

A computer systems analyst earned a $103,790 median in May 2024. Computer programmers earned $98,670, while software quality-assurance analysts earned $102,610 and software developers earned $133,080. Gravity’s $80,000 to $100,000 range ends slightly above the programmer median but below the systems-analyst, quality-assurance and software-developer medians.

The closest comparison may depend on how much time is actually spent coding. Gravity does not publish that breakdown.

My assessment is that the position is priced as a technical implementation and partner-support role, not as a conventional software-engineering job. The word “engineer” makes the range sound lower than it appears when the full duty mix is considered.

The Technical Account Manager carries three jobs

Gravity’s Technical Account Manager owns a portfolio of client relationships, identifies organic sales opportunities, manages deals from prospect to close and advocates for customer requests inside technical teams. The employee also participates in sprint planning, reviews Jira tickets, monitors development timelines and leads root-cause discussions after incidents.

The role therefore combines:

• Account management and retention.
• New-business and expansion sales.
• Technical program coordination.
• Incident communication.
• Product and engineering advocacy.

Gravity publishes no minimum years of experience or degree requirement. Its application asks candidates to explain prior work with technical teams, sprint planning, Jira and the conflict between urgent client demands and an existing engineering roadmap.

The salary range is correspondingly wide at $80,000 to $120,000. A $40,000 spread means the ceiling is 50% above the floor.

A computer systems analyst’s $103,790 BLS median sits inside the range. The $121,520 sales-engineer median is $1,520 above Gravity’s ceiling, while the $138,060 sales-manager median is $18,060 higher. Those occupations are not exact equivalents, but they expose the role’s mixed market position.

At $80,000, the employee could be underpriced for the full combination of technical coordination, retention responsibility and revenue work. At $120,000, the offer approaches the sales-engineer market while remaining below management benchmarks.

Placement within the band matters more than the headline floor.

Outside sales asks for ownership beyond closing deals

Gravity’s Boise salesperson must manage a territory from prospecting through onboarding, build and maintain a qualified pipeline, close deals and manage a continuing merchant portfolio. The same employee conducts renewals, rate reviews, upsells financial products and helps install, train and troubleshoot payment-processing equipment. The preferred background includes more than three years of outside sales and previous B2B experience.

The Los Angeles position accepts a broader two-plus years in outside sales, customer support, project management, account management or another customer-facing role. It adds professional Spanish fluency, weekly strategy meetings, role-playing exercises and responsibility for merchant retention.

Both require a personal vehicle and wired internet meeting the company’s stated 25 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload thresholds. The listings do not state whether mileage, vehicle costs or internet expenses are reimbursed.

BLS reported a $78,140 median for securities, commodities and financial-services sales agents in May 2024. A broader service-sales category not covering advertising, insurance, financial services or travel had a $92,730 median. Gravity’s $80,000 floor sits close to the financial-services figure but below the broader service-sales benchmark.

The jobs include no individual commission. Gravity instead advertises base pay plus company profit sharing, so higher personal sales do not translate through a published commission formula.

Where the $80,000 headline misleads

The common floor makes every opening look equally well paid. The duties show otherwise.

For support, $80,000 clears relevant BLS medians and offers a strong premium over ordinary user-support work. For integration engineering, it starts well below several technical benchmarks. For technical account management, the same figure covers responsibilities that cross account management, sales and engineering operations.

Gravity also says it may negotiate beyond every reviewed range. That language means the posted ceiling is not necessarily absolute, but the company publishes no distribution of actual offers, accepted salaries or negotiation outcomes.

One number cannot summarize seven jobs.

The company’s pay floor protects candidates entering lower-paid occupational categories. It does not settle whether each role’s responsibility, experience and scarcity are fully reflected in the final offer.

The hiring process adds two preparation calls

Gravity publishes seven hiring stages: application, phone screen, preparation call, first interview, another preparation call, second interview and offer stage. It says the sequence may change depending on the job and hiring need.

The two preparation calls are unusual. Gravity says they explain what candidates can expect and provide time for questions before interviews. The company does not publish its median time to hire, applicant-to-offer ratio or number of candidates reaching each stage.

Its 2025 careers page also says 61% of current managers were promoted internally. No denominator, department breakdown or average promotion time is supplied.

The hiring system is transparent about sequence and opaque about probability.

FAQ

How many jobs does Gravity Payments currently have?

Gravity’s Greenhouse board listed seven active openings on July 10, 2026: three remote technical or account roles and four outside-sales positions.

Do all Gravity Payments jobs start at $80,000?

All seven positions on the reviewed board had an advertised minimum of $80,000. Their maximums ranged from $85,000 to $120,000.

Is a bachelor’s degree required?

Not in the reviewed postings. The support role lists an applicable bachelor’s degree as preferred and accepts equivalent experience. The integration, technical account and reviewed sales postings publish no mandatory degree.

How much experience does Gravity require?

The bilingual support position prefers one to three years. Boise sales prefers more than three years of outside-sales experience, while Los Angeles asks for at least two years in a customer-facing role. The integration and technical account postings do not specify a minimum number of years.

Is the Integration Engineer a software-development job?

It includes coding knowledge, developer API support and release coordination, but the listing emphasizes partner integrations, escalated support and documentation rather than building a complete software product.

What is Gravity’s highest current salary range?

The remote Technical Account Manager position has the widest and highest published range at $80,000 to $120,000.

How many interviews are in the process?

Gravity publishes two formal interviews, each preceded by a preparation call. Including the application, phone screen and offer, the company identifies seven stages.

Gravity’s postings reduce degree barriers more than they reduce job complexity. The company pays a strong floor, but candidates are being hired to cross traditional boundaries between support, sales, account ownership and technical operations.