Jane Street quant salary and jobs
The benchmark: one flat $300,000 posted base for new-grad traders, researchers and engineers, and for interns too.
Quant roles at Jane Street
Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm and one of the largest market makers in ETFs, options and bonds. It hires three core tracks — quantitative trader, quantitative researcher and software engineer — and posts the same $300,000 base on all three, for new graduates and experienced hires alike. Most of its code is written in OCaml, and its interviews lean on probability, betting games and reasoning out loud rather than finance knowledge.
Jane Street listed 88 New York positions on Nov 11, 2026 (220 worldwide across New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore), including 8 new-grad and 17 summer-internship listings in New York.
Jane Street quant salary
Base: $300,000 on the new-grad Quantitative Trader, Quantitative Researcher and Software Engineer listings, read from Jane Street’s careers feed on Nov 11, 2026 (minimum and maximum salary are both $300,000). Experienced listings for the same three roles post the same figure, and summer 2027 internships are posted at $300,000 annualized. Bonus is discretionary and is not posted.
Jane Street pay by track
| Track | Role title | New-grad base | Summer 2027 internship | Experienced base | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quant trader | Quantitative Trader | $300k | $300k annualized | $300k | Yes |
| Quant researcher | Quantitative Researcher | $300k | $300k annualized | $300k | Yes |
| Quant developer | Software Engineer | $300k | $300k annualized | $300k | Yes |
Posted base pay, except figures marked “package”, which are the firm’s estimated annual compensation package. Bonuses, sign-on payments and housing are extra to base pay.
What Jane Street employees report
Self-reported total compensation from Levels.fyi. These are not posted figures and play no part in the ranking. They cover every office and all years of experience, and the site does not show how many reports are behind each one.
| Title on Levels.fyi | Total compensation |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | L1 $366K · L2 $343K · L3 $450K · L4 $378K |
Only figures the site labels a median or breaks out by level are shown. Source: Levels.fyi, read November 11, 2026.
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