Business Development

Business Development turns qualified relationships into retained revenue.

Salary from $1,842 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $3,461 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 621 Last 3 months
Applications per job 17.05 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Sales / Business Development
$1,800 Sales / BizDev median
$1,850 Sales / BizDev median

Hiring Verify pipeline ownership, deal motion, cycle length, and retained revenue.

Candidate Show quota context, conversion, deal size, and what you personally changed.

Data Broad DOU function median; bonuses and exact commercial roles vary. Broad DOU function median; exact commercial roles vary.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 59 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$1200
Median$2000
Upper quartile$3550

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile
Historical DOU salary range by survey month and year
Survey Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Respondents
$1500 $2200 $2500 21
$1725 $2000 $2975 24
$1200 $2000 $3550 59

Business-development managers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Sales 250 $1558–$2889 Business Development 234 $1792–$3516 Negotiation 193 $1640–$3230 Analytics 132 $1862–$3251 Account Management 113 $1679–$2918 CRM 94 $1441–$2653 Stakeholder Management 64 $2138–$3732 Lead Generation 61 $1120–$2341 Presentation Skills 49 $1739–$2832

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Non-technical salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Non-technical salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·