Interest in high-profile and large international development agencies is always high, as was clear in our coverage of the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Management’s hiring fair earlier this year, wherein it received a large number of applicants wanting to be part of the bilateral agency.
As part of our ongoing effort to spotlight salary trends across the development sector, our latest analysis delves into the USAID job salary information that has appeared on Devex’s job board over the past 12 months. This analysis includes 748 job postings, comprising the agency’s top hiring locations, bureaus and offices, salary differences between regions and sectors, and jobs with high-paying salaries across and outside the United States. To maintain consistency in the analysis, salaries that were not disclosed in U.S. dollars were converted from their original currencies.
USAID publicly shares its salary scales for many positions that it advertises, with experience level, and region as the main determining factors. The positions and salaries span the globe, ranging from an annual salary of $6,163 (ZK 261,496) for a program management assistant based in Zambia to a deputy assistant inspector general located in the United States with an annual salary of $221,900. Overall, we found that the average salary range shared is $81,290-$111,055.