What is the average Performance Marketing Manager salary?

$136K a year on average and $130K at the median, across 226 open Performance Marketing 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 $95K to $160K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Performance Marketing Manager pay?

Brex ($204K), Launch Potato ($160K), Suno ($158K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a performance marketing manager a high-paying job?

The median Performance Marketing Manager posting advertises $130K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 25% below the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a performance marketing manager?

A tenth of the postings offer $200K a year or more; the highest open Performance Marketing Manager role advertises up to $385K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Performance Marketing Manager salary per hour and per month?

The median of $130K a year is about $62 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $10,833 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $46 to $77 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Performance Marketing Manager roles?

Postings that ask for Marketing attribution (+$30K, 42 postings), SQL (+$10K, 22 postings), SEO (+$4K, 24 postings) advertise more than the $130K median of all Performance Marketing Manager postings with pay.

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.

Performance Marketing Manager Salary: $136K Average, $130K Median

Performance Marketing Manager salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $160K, 32% more than senior roles ($122K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

Level	Median salary	Middle half	Roles
Senior	$122K	$85K–$160K	61
Lead and above	$160K	$120K–$219K	72
No level in the title	$110K	$80K–$140K	90

Performance Marketing Manager salary by location

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area	$173K	32
🇺🇸California	$165K	45
🇺🇸New York, NY	$133K	72
🇺🇸United States	$130K	216

Skills that pay more for Performance Marketing Manager roles

Skill	Median with it	Above the median	Postings
Marketing attribution	$160K	+$30K	42
SQL	$140K	+$10K	22
SEO	$134K	+$4K	24
Performance marketing	$132K	+$2K	111

Top-paying companies

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
Brex	$204K	8
Launch Potato	$160K	12
Suno	$158K	6
Formlabs	$130K	3
Red Ventures	$110K	3
Lunar Solar Group	$100K	3
Monks	$100K	22
Omnicom Media	$95K	17
SeatGeek	$88K	4
Directive	$82K	8
BarkleyOKRP	$72K	3
DEPT®	$68K	17

Highest-paying open Performance Marketing Manager roles

All performance marketing manager jobs

Head of Performance MarketingOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $385KLead and aboveContract negotiationPerformance marketingMarketing attribution11d
Senior Director of Paid MediaOkta · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, C…$240K - $369KLead and aboveMachine LearningTableauLooker2mo
Senior Director of Performance MarketingDuolingo · 🇺🇸New York, NY$237K - $355KLead and abovePerformance marketingMarketing attributionAppsFlyer4w
Head of Paid MarketingFaire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$248K - $341KLead and aboveMachine LearningA/B testingPerformance marketing5w
Head of Paid MarketingFaire · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$248K - $341KLead and aboveMachine LearningA/B testingPerformance marketing5w
VP, Performance MarketingCLEAR - Corporate · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$250K - $325KLead and aboveSQL2mo
Paid Marketing LeadHark · 🇺🇸San Jose$150K - $300KLead and above6mo
Director of Performance MarketingRelayfi · 🇺🇸New York, NY$243K - $297KLead and aboveGoSQL2mo
Sr. Data Scientist, Performance MarketingPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$140K - $288KRemoteSeniorPythonSQLMachine Learning2w
Director, Global Performance MarketingAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$190K - $280KHybridLead and aboveTableauLookerSEO3mo
VP, Head of Paid MediaLendingTree · 🇺🇸Charlotte, NC, United States; Denver, Colorado, United St…$240K - $280KLead and abovePerformance marketingPaid socialProspecting6mo
Head of User AcquisitionPolymarket · 🇺🇸New York$250K - $280KLead and aboveSQL3w
Director, Performance MarketingBrex · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$221K - $277KLead and abovePerformance marketingMarketing attributionPaid social3w
Director, Performance MarketingBrex · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$221K - $277KLead and abovePerformance marketingMarketing attributionPaid social3w
Director, Paid MediaDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$161K - $277KLead and abovePerformance marketingEvent marketing3mo
Director of Growth and Acquisition MarketingChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$196K - $270KLead and aboveMarketing attributionPaid socialPPC5w
Senior Performance Marketing ManagerNewsBreak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$100K - $250KSeniorPerformance marketingMarketing attribution3mo
Senior Creative Strategist, Performance MarketingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$136K - $245KSeniorSEOPerformance marketingContent marketing5w
Performance Marketing LeadDuolingo · 🇺🇸New York, NY$163K - $245KLead and abovePerformance marketingMarketing attribution2w
Plant Controls Lead (EMS/PPC)Fluidstack · 🇺🇸Austin, TX$208K - $243KLead and above5w

Questions about Performance Marketing Manager pay

What is the average Performance Marketing Manager salary?: $136K a year on average and $130K at the median, across 226 open Performance Marketing 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 $95K to $160K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Performance Marketing Manager pay?: Brex ($204K), Launch Potato ($160K), Suno ($158K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a performance marketing manager a high-paying job?: The median Performance Marketing Manager posting advertises $130K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 25% below the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a performance marketing manager?: A tenth of the postings offer $200K a year or more; the highest open Performance Marketing Manager role advertises up to $385K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Performance Marketing Manager salary per hour and per month?: The median of $130K a year is about $62 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $10,833 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $46 to $77 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Performance Marketing Manager roles?: Postings that ask for Marketing attribution (+$30K, 42 postings), SQL (+$10K, 22 postings), SEO (+$4K, 24 postings) advertise more than the $130K median of all Performance Marketing Manager postings with pay.
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.

Performance Marketing Manager salary: $130K median