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2026 Global Compensation Survey for T&S Professionals

Thank you for your interest in our survey!

We want to better understand the global compensation landscape for current trust and safety professionals. Our end goal is to create a sharable resource that will enable trust and safety professionals (like you!) to assess their own performance.

Note: Participation in the survey is voluntary and open to all trust and safety professionals, regardless of their affiliation with the Trust and Safety Professional Association (TSPA) or the Trust and Safety Foundation. Neither TSPA nor TSF have individual or corporate members. The survey does not ask for any pricing information or other future forecast information and is not intended to enable respondents or those affiliated with TSPA or TSF to engage in price fixing or any anti-competitive activities.

Survey data will be collected and processed in a manner designed to prevent re-identification, including through the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other analytical tools. Those who review the survey results must not use, analyze, or reverse engineer the survey or survey results, including by using artificial intelligence or algorithms, for any such purposes. All reported data will reflect compensation information as of a reference date that is at least three (3) months prior to the date of publication.

Key Definitions
  • Annual salary (or salary): The amount of money an employer pays an employee over the course of a year, such as a base salary to the annual total of hourly wages, in exchange for the work they perform; this does not include non-cash compensation or financial benefits provided by an employer. Please report your salary as of April 15, 2026.
  • Annual compensation (or compensation): The combination of base salary and non-cash compensation or financial benefits provided by an employer, including but not limited to annual bonuses or commissions, insurance (for example, medical, dental, vision, life, disability), paid vacations, retirement plans, sick leave, profit-sharing plans, fringe benefits (for example, paid daycare or gym memberships).
  • Wages: The hourly amount an employer pays an employee for the work they perform. Please report wages as of April 15, 2026.
  • Trust and safety professional: TSPA considers someone a trust and safety professional if they are currently employed to directly develop and enforce principles and policies that define acceptable behavior and content online. Examples of this work include content review and moderation, internal policy development, safety incident management, legal compliance, and T&S-focused technical development.

Procedure
The online survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. You will be asked to answer questions in four general sections: 1) basic demographic information; 2) employment and role information; 3) salary; 4) benefits. If you have hiring responsibilities, you may be asked to answer additional questions.

Required questions are marked by an asterisk (*).
TSPA is committed to compliance with all applicable federal and state antitrust laws and has structured this survey to be consistent with them. The survey's sole purpose is to provide aggregated, de-identified, historical information as a general educational resource for the trust and safety profession. It is not intended to, and may not be used to, facilitate any agreement or coordination among employers regarding compensation, benefits, hiring, or any other term or condition of employment. TSPA does not collect current or forward-looking compensation data, does not share individual or employer-identifiable responses, and applies the aggregation safeguards described below. No participant or recipient may use this survey or its results — including through artificial intelligence or algorithmic tools — to fix, stabilize, benchmark toward, or otherwise coordinate compensation, or to engage in any other anticompetitive conduct.

Benefits
You may not benefit personally from completing this survey. However, we hope that, in the future, others might benefit from the findings of this survey, as we will share insights with the public via TSPA's website.

Risks
While we do not anticipate any foreseeable risks to participating in this survey, we will ask some questions about salary, contract status, satisfaction, and other topics, including your demographic information. Your responses will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Note: Please only share information that you are authorized to share; you must not communicate salary and/or compensation information that is prohibited by your employer and/or your country's laws.

Privacy and Confidentiality
To ensure that information relating to individual responses will not be disclosed and cannot be discerned by readers or other respondents, raw, non-anonymized, data will be available only to TSPA staff who are members of the survey research team. When we release the results publicly, we will de-identify all data, such that responses cannot be connected to individual respondents.

Also, please note that TSPA is headquartered in the United States. In completing this survey, your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country. Please refer to Section 9 or our Privacy Policy for more information about how we handle the personal information of certain international users.

Data Dissemination
Individual, identified, or employer-identifiable data will not be shared with any person or entity. Raw data will be accessible solely to TSPA staff or the designated survey analysis contractor(s). The minimum participant threshold for any reported statistic will be at least 6 participants and no single participant's data represents more than 25% of the reported figure on a weighted basis. TSPA staff will not engage in any individual or offline discussion of survey results. TSPA may publicly publish aggregated, de-identified results, including via TSPA's website. Recipients of published results may not use them to coordinate, fix, suppress, or stabilize compensation or other terms of employment, or in any manner that violates applicable federal or state antitrust law.
Your rights
Your participation in this survey is voluntary. There will be no consequences if you do not complete the survey. Respondents in certain jurisdictions, such as the EU, UK, and Switzerland, have privacy rights related to data access, correction, and deletion that are described in more detail in our Privacy Policy.

Consent
This survey contains questions that ask for your explicit consent. By selecting "Yes, I agree" and "Yes, I give consent," you agree you're able to share the information requested, and you agree to the terms outlined above, TSPA’s Terms of Service, and our Privacy Policy.

Questions
You are encouraged to contact us if you need assistance or have questions about completing the survey. Permissible inquiries will be limited procedural or technical questions, not questions about compensation data or survey results. For additional information, please email TSPA at contact@tspa.org.