Expedia salaries revealed: These 12 jobs at the $12.7 billion travel giant fetch as much as $267,000
- Travel giant Expedia pays as much as $267,000 in base pay, before bonuses and stock awards, according to data the company disclosed when applying for H-1B visas on behalf of foreign workers.
- We analyzed the data from over 400 approved visa applications to find the highest-paying jobs within Expedia and used job postings to find out more about the positions, including key responsibilities.
- Notably, the data doesn't reflect total pay packages — the figures don't include stock options, cash bonuses, or other additional forms of compensation.
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Travel giant Expedia Group has had a turbulent year.
The company's former CEO and chief financial officer resigned in December, citing disagreements with the board over strategy. Then, the pandemic hit, causing what new CEO Peter Kern called "likely the worst quarter the travel industry has seen in modern history," driving Expedia sales down 82%. Expedia cut 12% of its workforce earlier this year. The company is now valued at some $12.7 billion on the stock market.
An Expedia spokesperson said the company saw bookings start to rebound in May and is seeing anecdotal signs of recovery: Trip searches on Expedia.com have seen an uptick, and its vacation rental subsidiary VBRO had more stays on Labor Day this year than in 2019.
It's unclear how much the pandemic has affected compensation within Expedia, but federal data provides a window into at least some of the highest-paid roles within the company.
American companies have to disclose salaries when they apply for visas on behalf of current or prospective foreign workers. The Office of Foreign Labor Certification publishes the salaries every year. Business Insider analyzed the data to find the highest-paying roles within Expedia.
We analyzed Expedia's more than 400 active foreign-worker visas in 2020 to find the titles with the highest salaries and provided a salary range for each role (the data doesn't include total compensation, which can include bonuses or stock awards). We focused this list on roles that pay $200,000 or more at the high end of the range. The highest we found pays $267,000.
It's not a comprehensive look because it contains only salaries for foreign workers, but it provides a rare look — most companies doesn't disclose or discuss employee compensation, except for public companies required to report compensation for top executives.
Here are the highest-paid salaries within Expedia Group, according to visa filings:
Director, strategy and business development: Up to $200,000
Top salary range: $148,155 to $200,000
Similar job posting: Director, corporate development
Top responsibility: "Generate acquisition strategies and themes both independently and in coordination with Expedia's business unit leaders."
Principal software development engineer: Up to $200,000
Top salary range: $164,417 to $200,000
Top responsibility: "Work through ambiguous problems through validated design skills, sharp analytical abilities, and an ability to influence/utilize technical teams to execute on those ideas," according to a recent job posting.
Senior software architect: Up to $202,927.56
Top salary range: $153,795 to $202,927.56
Similar job posting: Senior software development engineer
Top responsibility: "Use your creativity, outstanding engineering skills, and technical knowledge to deliver features and improvements."
Manager, engineering: Up to $203,000
Top salary: $160,701 to $203,000
Top responsibility: "You will be responsible for coaching and mentoring an incredible, hardworking team around their goals, delivery, and career development," according to a recent job posting.
Director of strategy and marketing innovation: Up to $203,333
Top salary range: $156,500 to $203,333
Similar job posting: Director, product marketing
Top responsibility: "In this role, you will help build and mentor a team to develop insights to guide product development, cultivate collaborative partnerships across teams, and craft and execute go-to-market strategies."
Director, software engineering: Up to $203,333
Top salary range: $186,659 to $203,333
Top responsibility: Manage engineering teams and "lead the scale and maintenance of the highest operational quality for our production systems and related environments," according to a recent job posting.
Director, technology: Up to $204,316
Top salary range: $164,694 to $204,316
Top responsibility: "Lead, grow, and develop the team from inception through effective hiring, mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies," according to a recent job posting.
Senior director, software development: Up to $214,007
Top salary range: $192,920 to $214,007
Similar job posting: Director, software engineering
Top responsibility: Expedia doesn't have any open job postings for a "senior" director of software engineering, so the closest job description we can find is from a role that already made our list: Manage engineering teams and "lead the scale and maintenance of the highest operational quality for our production systems and related environments."
Director, product management: Up to $215,000
Top salary range: $155,530 to $215,000
Top responsibility: "In this role, you will drive the strategy and vision that guides how product managers assess, innovate, build and evolve the custom and packaged technology products that power Expedia's internal partners," according to one job posting.
Principal product manager: Up to $235,000
Top salary range: $$164,694 to $235,000
Top responsibility: "You will prioritize and deliver a portfolio of features and test & learns to improve the user experience of millions of travelers, across our various sites (e.g. Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity) all around the world," according to one job posting.
Senior director, technology: Up to $250,395
Top salary range: $192,920 to $250,395
Top responsibility: "Hire and develop high quality engineering leaders while strengthening morale and cohesion across the teams," according to a recent job posting.
Vice president of global talent acquisition: Up to $267,000
Top salary range: $180,000 to $267,000
Top responsibility: Expedia doesn't have any open job postings for this role, but closed and similar job postings suggest the vice president of global talent acquisition is in charge of driving "recruitment processes that leads to identifying and hiring high quality talent, whilst ensuring a differentiated candidate experience."
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