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Nelnet

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General information

Nelnet is a diversified financial services and technology company. It services federal student loans, processing millions of borrower payments a year for people repaying college debt. It also runs FACTS, a K-12 school management system that handles school administration, billing and enrollment for K-12 schools. Other business lines include government solutions, technology services, payment processing and employee benefits. The company is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nelnet was started in 1996 by Mike Dunlap and Steve Butterfield and went public in 2003, trading on the NYSE under the ticker NNI. After buying Great Lakes Educational Loan Services in 2018, it became the largest student loan servicer in the country, handling $397 billion in loans, about 42% of all student loans in the United States.

Currently, there's a total of 56 job openings at Nelnet. Over the last 30 days, 59 jobs were added and 79 were removed (job postings usually stay up ~6 days before being removed). Historically, the median salary is ~$103,482.1

Website
nelnet.com
Headquarters
Lincoln, United States
Industry
Financial Services
Category
Fintech

Hiring activity

67Open jobs
+64Added in 30 days
−83Closed in 30 days
8 daysHow long jobs stay open

New jobs added per week2

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Week beginningNew listings
July 20, 202616
July 27, 202610
August 3, 202610
August 10, 202614
August 17, 202615
August 24, 202620
August 31, 202617
September 7, 2026 (in progress)12

Open jobs

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Pay

What does Nelnet actually pay? Based on previous and active job listings with specified pay ranges, the median annual pay is $103,482. Note that 53% of jobs don't list any pay information, so figures may be skewed towards cities like NYC, where pay disclosure is mandated for each posting.4

Share of salaried jobs in each pay bracket

Share of salaried jobs in each pay bracket
BracketJobs
Under $100k28 jobs (41%)
$100k to $150k39 jobs (57%)
$150k to $200k2 jobs (3%)
$200k and up0 jobs (0%)

Plus 12 hourly jobs at $14 to $25 an hour.

Posted ranges on jobs open now4

Director of Enterprise Risk Management - Governance$180,000 – $200,000
Principal Software Architect & Developer - CampusGuard$140,000 – $170,000
Sr Staff Engineer$77,000 – $170,000
$47k$200k
Group Product Manager, Horizon$115,000 – $165,000
Legal Counsel - Corporate$125,000 – $165,000
Legal Counsel- Consumer Financial Services Litigation (Lincoln, NE)$115,000 – $165,000
Attorney - Tax Credit Investments & Syndication$120,000 – $160,000
Enterprise Account Executive - SLED (Google Public Sector)$110,000 – $160,000
Manager, Exposure Management$120,000 – $160,000
Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Velocity Platform$120,000 – $158,000
Senior Product Manager, Payment Systems and Fraud Prevention$100,000 – $150,000
Director of International Accounting & Finance - NBS$140,000 – $150,000
Senior Product Manager, Horizon$100,000 – $150,000
Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect$125,000 – $150,000
Product Lead, New Ventures$100,000 – $150,000
IT Project Manager - CyberSecurity$100,000 – $150,000
Accounting Manager - Tax Credit Services$105,000 – $150,000
Senior Software Engineer$120,000 – $150,000
CRM Solutions Architect$130,000 – $150,000
Sr Application Security Engineer$135,000 – $150,000
Senior Product Manager$120,000 – $150,000
Senior DevOps Engineer$110,000 – $135,000
Junior/Mid-Level IT Software Engineer - .NET/Web$90,000 – $130,000
Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer - NBS$120,000 – $130,000
Security Advisor$105,000 – $130,000
CyberSecurity Senior Analyst$85,000 – $130,000
Senior Middleware Engineer (WebSphere MQ)$79,965 – $127,000
Senior Data Scientist$63,000 – $127,000
IT Infrastructure Engineer - Data Center$79,000 – $127,000
IT Infrastructure Engineer - Network$79,000 – $127,000
IT Software Engineer - Microsoft Tools Team$79,965 – $127,000
IT System Reliability Engineer$79,956 – $127,000
Vulnerability Management Engineer$75,000 – $125,000
Cybersecurity Application Security Engineer$90,000 – $125,000
Manager, Partnership Alliances$100,000 – $120,000
IT Business Analyst - Quality Assurance$55,000 – $120,000
Product Manager II- NBS$100,000 – $120,000
Software Engineer II$100,000 – $120,000
Sr Software Engineer$100,000 – $120,000
Product Manager - NDS$90,000 – $120,000
IT Software Engineer - .Net/Web$90,000 – $120,000
IT Software Engineer - Java$60,000 – $120,000
IT Project Manager - NDS$85,000 – $115,000
Senior Risk and Audit Specialist$84,000 – $110,000
Business Systems Analyst — Data Governance & Operational Systems$85,000 – $110,000
IT Business Analyst - Quality Assurance - NDS$75,000 – $110,000
NBS - Product Manager$90,000 – $110,000
Accountant III - Nelnet Bank$75,000 – $105,000
Program Manager, Managed Services - CampusGuard$70,000 – $100,000
Portfolio Performance Analyst – Nelnet Financial Services$80,000 – $100,000
M365 Engineer - Modern Workplace$75,000 – $100,000
ScholarNet Senior Associate - Campus Sales$85,000 – $95,000
Investment Analyst (Lincoln, NE or Draper, UT)$60,000 – $93,000
Product Owner - FACTS Financial Aid$85,000 – $90,000
Reporting & Analytics Project Manager – Nelnet Financial Services$60,000 – $90,000
Product Owner - NBS$85,000 – $90,000
Workday Financial Systems Analyst$80,000 – $90,000
Lead, Integrated Marketing, Nelnet Campus Commerce$80,000 – $90,000
IT Business Analyst - Consumer Services$55,000 – $80,000
Account Executive - FACTS- IL, MN, & WI$70,000 – $75,000
Accountant II$50,000 – $70,000
IT Service Management Analyst (On-Call Rotation Required)$65,000 – $70,000
Staff Auditor$55,000 – $60,000
Data & Compliance Analyst$52,000 – $54,000
Senior Account Manager- G&A/SGO - FACTS - NBS$50,000 – $53,000
Operations Analyst and Project Lead$50,000 – $52,000
Program Coordinator$50,000 – $52,000
Outreach Coordinator - NBS$47,000 – $50,000
Outreach Coordinator - NBS$47,000 – $50,000

Hourly jobs

Intern - Software Engineer - New Ventures - Starting Summer 2027$19 – $25 an hour
Intern - AI Engineer$21 – $25 an hour
Intern Program - Agentic AI$21 – $25 an hour
Client Support Analyst$22 – $24 an hour
Client Support Analyst$22 – $24 an hour
Agentic AI Intern- Marketing and Communications$15 – $19 an hour
Accounting Intern$16 – $18 an hour
Intern - Tax Accounting - Spring, 2027$16 – $18 an hour
Internal Audit Intern$14 – $18 an hour
Intern - Campus Recruiting$16 – $17 an hour
Marketing Content Intern$15 – $17 an hour
Intern – Graphic Designer$15 – $17 an hour

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Common questions

Is Nelnet hiring now?

Yes. There are 67 open jobs, with 64 added in the last 30 days. They close fast though, often within 8 days, so don't wait.

How much does Nelnet pay?

Posted pay runs $47,000 to $200,000 a year, and the median is $103,482. We only show pay the company printed itself, never estimates.

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Notes & sources

369 daily listing observations, Jun 14 to Sep 12 windowRechecked daily, last September 12, 2026
  1. 1. Company description. Written by InterviewOS from Nelnet's public materials and press coverage; facts are checked against the sources below.
  2. 2. Weekly counts. A count is the number of listings the pipeline saw for the first time in that week. Weeks begin Monday; the onboarding week is excluded from the scale and every average.
  3. 3. Live counts. Deduplicated live listings observed daily on Nelnet's own hiring system; last check September 12, 2026. Stale and syndicated posts on aggregator sites are not counted.
  4. 4. Posted pay. Ranges extracted from the text of Nelnet's own listings; a range appears only when the employer printed one. Extraction is still rolling out, so this table can lag the board.

Sources
nelnet.com, checked daily
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