Project Manager salary: $135K median
From 268 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$135Kmedian advertised salary
$110K – $161Kmiddle half of roles
$138Kaverage advertised salary
268roles counted
Project Manager salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $194K, 34% more than senior roles ($145K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $145K | $134K–$165K | 51 |
| Lead and above | $194K | $178K–$210K | 37 |
| No level in title | $122K | $107K–$142K | 173 |
Project Manager salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸California | $162K | 65 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $160K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $141K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $134K | 254 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $114K | 31 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $256K | 3 |
| Precision for Medicine | $202K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $184K | 3 |
| Formenergy | $166K | 3 |
| Rocket Lab | $162K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $162K | 7 |
| Lumos & Associates | $162K | 4 |
| Precision Medicine Group | $160K | 8 |
| Accenture Federal Services | $149K | 7 |
| CannonDesign | $144K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $142K | 10 |
| Benesch | $142K | 11 |
| MacKay | $138K | 18 |
| Formic | $134K | 4 |
| Oscar Health | $131K | 3 |
| Voyager Technologies, Inc. | $124K | 7 |
| Gotion | $120K | 5 |
| Hermanson Company | $118K | 32 |
| ARCO/Murray National Construction | $110K | 39 |
| Precision AQ | $76K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Project Manager roles
All project manager jobs- Project Manager, Compute TransformationOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$278K - $308KSQLDatabricks
- Executive Director, Project Management - OncologyPrecision Medicine Group · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$203K - $305KRemoteLeadGCP
- Executive Director, Project Management - OncologyPrecision for Medicine · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$203K - $305KRemoteLeadGCP
- Commissioning Project Lead, Data Center DeliveryOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$226K - $285KLead
- Sr. Technical Project Lead (Silicon Engineering)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$175K - $280KLeadJira
- Strategic Project LeadHalluminate · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $280KLead
- Senior Director, Project Management & Operational ExcellenceImmunic Therapeutics · Gräfelfing$230K - $270KLead
- Sr. Technical Project Lead (Silicon Engineering)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Irvine, CA$165K - $260KLeadJira
- ASIC Technical Project ManagerHudson River Trading · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States$150K - $250KJira
- Director, Project ManagementPrecision Medicine Group · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$162K - $243KRemoteLeadGCP
- Director, Project ManagementPrecision for Medicine · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$162K - $243KRemoteLeadGCP
- Director, Expansion PMO, Data Center PlanningCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Franc…$180K - $240KLead
- Engineering Project ManagerMacKay · 🇺🇸San Diego, CA$175K - $240K
- Senior/Staff Project Manager, Places & BuildZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$196K - $235KLeadExcel
- ServiceNow Project Management LeadAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Chantilly, VA; Herndon, VA$117K - $233KLead
- Staff Technical Project ManagerLucid Motors · 🇺🇸Newark, CA$158K - $231KLeadJira
- Senior Project Manager - Professional ServicesMongoDB · 🇺🇸Austin; Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles$118K - $231KSeniorGCPAzureAWS
- Technical Project LeadArbor Energy · 🇺🇸El Segundo, CA$175K - $225KLeadPythonMATLAB
- Technical Project ManagerNautilus Biotechnology · San Carlos$164K - $221KJiraAgile
- Sr. Director, Project ManagementNational Life Insurance Company · 🇺🇸Addison, TX; Montpelier, VT$150K - $220KLeadAgile
Questions about Project Manager pay
- What is the average Project Manager salary?
- $138K a year on average and $135K at the median, across 268 open Project 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 $110K to $161K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Project Manager pay?
- OpenAI ($256K), Precision for Medicine ($202K), CoreWeave ($184K), 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 Project Manager roles at tech companies is $135K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $110K to $161K. Counted from 268 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/project-manager/
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