IT Manager salary: $204K median
The median advertised IT Manager salary is $204K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $170K to $244K: counted from 57 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $98 an hour or $17,000 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $292K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll IT manager jobs
$204Kmedian advertised salary
$170K – $244Kmiddle half of roles
$210Kaverage advertised salary
57roles counted
IT Manager salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $244K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸California | $232K | 22 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $202K | 50 |
Skills that pay more for IT Manager roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
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Highest-paying open IT Manager roles
All IT manager jobs- Senior Director, IT Product Management - GTM & Customer ExperienceRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$278K - $390KLead and aboveLLMAI agentsVector databases
- Vice President, Information TechnologyCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$330K - $360KLead and aboveSAPData centersHelp desk
- IT LeadRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$280K - $360KLead and aboveMachine LearningData centersITSM
- Senior Director, ITMoloco · 🇺🇸Menlo Park, California, United States$248K - $345KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMRAG
- Head of ITModal · 🇺🇸New York$270K - $320KLead and aboveFine-tuningSSOEDR
- VP of IT Infrastructure & OperationsServe Robotics · 🇺🇸USA (remote)$220K - $320KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningAgileComputer Vision
- Director, IT SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $300KLead and aboveGCPAzureCI/CD
- Deputy Chief Information OfficerBarnes · Indianapolis$285K - $300KLead and above
- Senior IT ManagerRetell Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$200K - $300KSeniorGoPythonBash
- Head of IT Systems EngineeringAsana · 🇺🇸San Francisco$252K - $296KLead and abovePythonFigmaBash
- Director, Information Technology & Security (K12 Edtech)Magicschool · 🇺🇸Denver$200K - $280KHybridLead and abovePythonAWSGenerative AI
- Director of IT, Corporate Security & InfrastructureFrontcareers · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$250K - $276KLead and aboveSnowflakeJiraNetSuite
- Director of ITBillionToOne · 🇺🇸Menlo Park, CA or Union City, CA$218K - $272KLead and aboveAWS
- Director, IT Operations and InfrastructureMarqeta Inc · Oakland$217K - $271KLead and aboveJira
- Senior Director, IT Enterprise ApplicationsImmunic Therapeutics · 🇺🇸Remote - US$235K - $270KRemoteLead and above
- IT Director, Infrastructure and OperationsHeartflow · 🇺🇸Rohnert Park, California$220K - $270KLead and aboveAzureAWSCISM
- Director, IT Business Partner CommercialReplimune · Woburn$208K - $270KLead and aboveJavaScriptSQLJira
- Director, Information TechnologyReplimune · Woburn$202K - $262KHybridLead and above
- Director/Sr. Director, Information TechnologyManifold Bio · 🇺🇸Boston$200K - $260KLead and aboveAWS
- Director, IT Business Solutions Partner – People and LegalBridgeBio Pharma · 🇺🇸San Francisco - 1800 Owens$220K - $260KLead and aboveWorkday
Questions about IT Manager pay
- What is the average IT Manager salary?
- $210K a year on average and $204K at the median, across 57 open IT Manager postings at 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 $170K to $244K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer 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.
- Is an it manager a high-paying job?
- The median IT Manager posting advertises $204K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 17% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an it manager?
- A tenth of the postings offer $292K a year or more; the highest open IT Manager role advertises up to $390K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the IT Manager salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $204K a year is about $98 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,000 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $82 to $117 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for IT Manager roles?
- Postings that ask for ERP (+$66K, 5 postings), SOX (+$51K, 6 postings), Audit (+$41K, 5 postings) advertise more than the $204K median of all IT Manager postings with pay.
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The median advertised salary for IT Manager roles at companies is $204K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $170K to $244K. Counted from 57 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/it-manager/
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