{"id":85052,"date":"2023-09-27T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85052"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:00:22","slug":"survey-finds-3-of-blockchain-industry-workers-are-paid-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/survey-finds-3-of-blockchain-industry-workers-are-paid-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds 3% of blockchain-industry workers are paid in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 88% of workers in the blockchain industry work remotely, but only 3% are paid in digital assets. This is stated in the results of a survey <a href=\"https:\/\/panteracapital.com\/blockchain-compensation-survey\/\">Pantera Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, one in five of the 1,600 respondents has ever received payment in cryptocurrency. Managers were the most frequent users of this method.<\/p>\n<p>Most preferred <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">stablecoins<\/a> USDT or USDC, with only 13% choosing Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of crypto-industry workers reside in the United States (35%), Latin America is second (29.7%), and Europe and the Middle East third (23.5%). The Asia-Pacific region ranked last with 11.6%.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 21,300 jobs in the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<p>Wages in the sector also vary by region. In North America, blockchain developers earn an average of $193,000 per year. This shows a pronounced difference relative to the rest of the world. For example, the Latin American region offers a salary of $104,771.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-developers earn slightly more than their Web 2.0 colleagues. The average pay for the latter in the United States is $166,100.<\/p>\n<p>Top executives at crypto companies earn from $147,363 to $335,400, depending on the level of the firm.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Coinbase report, 20% of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-20-of-americans-own-cryptocurrency\">own<\/a> digital assets \u2014 this group numbers about 52 million people.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Pew Research Center survey, two-thirds of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-distrust-cryptocurrencies\">are wary of<\/a> crypto assets due to the banking crisis and regulatory issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 88% of blockchain-industry workers work remotely, but only 3% are paid in digital assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,1645],"class_list":["post-85052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-research","tag-salaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85054,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052\/revisions\/85054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}