Engineering Manager salary: $260K median
From 373 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$260Kmedian advertised salary
$228K – $308Kmiddle half of roles
$277Kaverage advertised salary
373roles counted
Engineering Manager salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $283K, 9% more than senior roles ($259K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $259K | $242K–$272K | 71 |
| Lead and above | $283K | $240K–$333K | 43 |
| No level in title | $254K | $218K–$320K | 259 |
Engineering Manager salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $276K | 184 |
| 🇺🇸California | $275K | 206 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $264K | 78 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $260K | 350 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $249K | 28 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $238K | 19 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $445K | 16 |
| OpenAI | $423K | 16 |
| Decagon | $355K | 4 |
| Perplexity | $352K | 3 |
| Harvey | $332K | 14 |
| Sentry | $322K | 4 |
| Roblox | $320K | 15 |
| Wayve | $292K | 3 |
| Temporal | $291K | 3 |
| Pure Storage | $288K | 5 |
| Replit | $288K | 5 |
| Scale AI | $280K | 4 |
| Zoox | $280K | 7 |
| Coinbase | $276K | 3 |
| Hinge Health | $275K | 4 |
| Plaid | $272K | 5 |
| Mercury | $269K | 5 |
| Brex | $266K | 6 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 7 |
| Illumio | $259K | 4 |
| Airbnb | $259K | 4 |
| Duolingo | $255K | 3 |
| Braze | $254K | 8 |
| Baseten | $248K | 4 |
| Render | $246K | 8 |
Highest-paying open Engineering Manager roles
All engineering manager jobs- Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)Anthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$500K - $850KMachine Learning
- Engineering Manager, Research Data PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $850KMachine LearningBigQueryClickHouse
- Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AIRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$526K - $574KLeadMachine LearningLLMAI
- Engineering Manager, MLEOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$500K - $555KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Engineering Manager, Core ExperimentationOpenAI · 🇺🇸Seattle$510K - $536K
- Senior Director of Engineering, Native DataApollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$349K - $502KLeadHubSpot
- Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $485KRustGoPython
- Senior Director of Engineering, Product SoftwareZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$354K - $470KLead
- Head of Engineering, Payments PlatformAirwallex · 🇸🇬SG - Singapore$385K - $460KLead
- Director of Engineering – Studio SystemsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$399K - $458KLeadC++LLM
- Engineering Manager, GrowthSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$220K - $450KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)Sentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$300K - $450KLead
- Head of Engineering, PlatformGoodfire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$300K - $450KLeadMachine LearningPyTorch
- Senior Director of Engineering, New SubjectsDuolingo · 🇺🇸New York, NY$296K - $444KLeadLLM
- Engineering Manager, Core Cloud PlatformLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KGoPythonMachine Learning
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform (LKS)Lambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KMachine LearningKubernetes
- Engineering Manager, Agent OrchestrationDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$280K - $430K
- Engineering Manager, Agent ProductDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$280K - $430KPythonTypeScriptLLM
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KLeadSnowflakeAWS
- Director of Engineering, PaymentsPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLead
Questions about Engineering Manager pay
- What is the average Engineering Manager salary?
- $277K a year on average and $260K at the median, across 373 open Engineering Manager postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $228K to $308K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Engineering Manager pay?
- Anthropic ($445K), OpenAI ($423K), Decagon ($355K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Engineering Manager roles at tech companies is $260K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $228K to $308K. Counted from 373 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/engineering-manager/
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