MARKET INTELLIGENCE

The Spearpoint Salary Guide: Digital Asset Leadership Trends

Spearpoint is the search firm for market infrastructure, running retained search at the senior end of the market. These are real bands for the firms we serve · market makers and prop trading, hedge funds, AI infrastructure for finance, exchanges, custody and stablecoin infrastructure, fintech and payments · for roles clearing $150K base and the leadership seats above them. It is drawn from live, confidential conversations, not scraped data. Where a market is too thin to band honestly, we say so instead of filling the gap.

SECTORS

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Spearpoint's own coverage map. All seven sectors are live — sourcing depth varies by function, flagged in the notes as you browse.

CANDIDATES

Am I paid fairly?

Pick your job title and your city, enter your base in US dollars, and we return your percentile against the band we hold for that seat.

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This checks base only. Total comp — equity, tokens, bonus structure — is in the full dataset.

FULL DATASET

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The public guide shows headline bands. The full release adds P10 to P90 percentiles, equity and token comparators, sign-on data and quarterly movement across 148 roles and 1,036 bands.

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Digital Asset Exchanges and Venues

Centralized and hybrid venues matching and custodying digital-asset order flow.

Market London is Spearpoint's reference market — every other figure is indexed from it.

Compare across markets

Dot = median base. Line and end-marks = the typical band, 25th–75th percentile.

These are median bands. The full dataset adds total comp — equity and token detail — plus 10th–90th percentile outliers and live-mandate notes.

For hiring teams

Benchmarking built for the offer you're about to make

Public bands tell you the market. They don't tell you why your last three offers on this role got beaten — or by how much. That's the part we do privately.

7Sectors covered

148Roles benchmarked

8Global markets

$150K+Base floor

What you get that the public guide doesn't

Live comp intelligence tied to the mandate you're actually running, not a category average.
Competing-offer color from candidates we're placing across the same sector this quarter.
Custom bands for a level or function this guide doesn't cover yet — Board comp, day-rate structures, token-vesting design.
A second opinion before you go back with a revised number.

01

Send us the role

Title, level, market — and the offer you're circling, if you have one.

02

We pull live comps

From mandates we're running this quarter in the same sector and function.

03

You get a number, not a range

What it actually takes to close — base, equity, token detail, sign-on.

How this is built

Methodology

Short version: real mandates first, public benchmarks to fill gaps, and we say so when a number is thinner than the rest.

Sourcing

Bands are built from live search mandates Spearpoint has run or is running, cross-checked against public compensation benchmarks and comparable-role data. Where our own mandate coverage for a function is thin, we say so directly in the note attached to that function — we'd rather flag a thinner number than smooth it over.

Scope

Every role carries a $150K+ base floor. We cover five seniority tiers — Board, C-Suite, Head/VP, Director, and Senior IC (individual contributors with no direct reports, still benchmarked separately from management tracks). Board-level comp is typically a day rate or retainer rather than a base salary, so it's called out rather than forced into the same band shape.

Reading the percentiles

Each band shows a 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile in USD base salary. These are presented as percentiles for clarity, drawn from the researched range for that role, level and market — they are a defensible presentational convention rather than a literal, large-sample survey statistic. Treat the median as the center of gravity for that seat, and the 25th–75th spread as the range you should expect a real offer to land inside.

Location index — which city pays more

London is the reference market. Every other market is priced off a location index — grounded in comparative cost-of-talent data — applied to the London band for that exact role and level. Drag your eye across the bars below: San Francisco and New York price highest against London; Singapore and Hong Kong come in lowest.

Market	Index vs. London	Note
London	1.00×	Reference market
New York	1.15×
Chicago	1.08×
San Francisco	1.20×	Tech-market pricing pressure
Miami	1.02×
Dubai	0.95×	Gross figure — 0% income tax materially raises net
Hong Kong	0.92×
Singapore	0.90×

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Bands are reviewed quarterly, or sooner where a live mandate moves a number materially. The anonymous data points contributors submit are pooled into that review, never published individually.