Traditional bank compensation studies start with asset size.
That works reasonably well when you're comparing banks that operate similar businesses. Partner banking blows that logic apart.
Two banks with similar balance sheets can support dramatically different fintech programs, move vastly different amounts of money, generate very different economics, and require entirely different teams to keep the whole thing running.
Until now, both banks had to rely on the same traditional compensation data to decide what their people should make.
Travillian collected compensation and operating data directly from FDIC-insured community banks running BaaS, BIN sponsorship, payments, and lending programs. The result is the first known compensation benchmark built specifically around the people and economics behind partner banking.
It includes 150 individual executive pay records across nine publishable roles, plus staffing data, salary bands, incentive plans, organizational structures, and program economics.
The playbook was built to answer the questions we hear from partner banks often:
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A practical guide to building compensation strategies that attract, retain, and scale.
Built first and foremost for banks already operating partner banking businesses — particularly CEOs, boards, compensation committees, and executives responsible for building and retaining the team.
Indispensable for banks considering entering the space that need a realistic view of the people and expense required before committing to the strategy.
Investors, analysts, consultants, and companies that work closely with partner banks. Standard licenses cover internal use only. Contact us for a specialty license to use findings in client or external deliverables.
The playbook gives you the market. Travillian can help you figure out what it means for your institution.
Once you know where your talent gaps are, Travillian can help you fill them. We've spent more than 25 years building a national talent network across banking and fintech, with particular depth in the hard-to-find roles partner banks need. We can take your bank from an org chart recommendation to an actual hire.
The banks competing for experienced partner banking talent already know how thin the market is.
The 2026 Partner Banking Compensation Playbook gives you a clearer view of what the players in this space are paying, how they're building their teams, and where the economics justify adding people.
Interested in purchasing the playbook? Submit the form and Amber Buker, Chief Research Officer at Travillian, will follow up with licensing options, pricing and next steps.