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Manager engineering salaries in the United States
Median $238k a year across 798 live postings that publish pay; the middle half runs from $200k to $275k. 86% of the 933 live postings in this segment publish a band at all.
The middle half: $200k to $275k. The ends are folded into the outer bars.
- Internship$80k
- Entry level$128k
- Mid level$163k
- Senior$190k
- Staff$230k
- Principal$238k
- Manager (this page)$238k
- Director$255k
- Executive$222k
Bars are the middle half of published bands; the tick is the median.
Highest-paying employers
Anthropicmedian of 32 published bands$363k
Decagonmedian of 6 published bands$355k
Perplexitymedian of 3 published bands$353k
Mercormedian of 3 published bands$325k
Servalmedian of 2 published bands$325k
Robloxmedian of 11 published bands$320k
OpenAImedian of 27 published bands$319k
Figmamedian of 10 published bands$317k
Hiring the most right now
By job title
| Title | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager | $256k | 16 |
| Head of Forward Deployed Engineering | $270k | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Infrastructure | $263k | 4 |
| Engineering Manager, Landing Pages | $254k | 4 |
| Engineering Manager, Product | $275k | 4 |
| Head of AMER Legal Engineering (In-House) | $425k | 4 |
| Manufacturing Engineering Manager | $206k | 4 |
| Business Operations Manager (Starlink Platform Integrity) | $168k | 3 |
The best-paid openings in this segment
- Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)Anthropic · San Francisco, CA $500k to $850k
- Engineering Manager, Research ProductivityAnthropic · San Francisco, CA $405k to $850k
- Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform SecurityAnthropic · San Francisco, CA $485k to $625k
- Engineering Manager, Inference InfrastructureAnthropic · San Francisco, CA $405k to $625k
- Engineering ManagerThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States$450k to $500k
- Engineering Manager, Core ExperimentationOpenAI · Remote$441k to $490k
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Questions this data answers
What is the median salary for manager engineering roles in the United States?
$238k a year in base pay, across 798 live postings that publish a salary band. The middle half of those bands runs from $200k to $275k.
What do the best-paid manager engineering roles in the United States offer?
One in ten published bands has a midpoint above $320k, and one in ten sits below $155k.
How many manager engineering job posts publish a salary?
86% of the 933 live postings in this segment state a pay range. The figures here are drawn only from those.
Do remote engineering roles in the United States pay less?
Remote postings publish a median of $240k against $238k for on-site and hybrid ones, from 208 and 590 postings respectively.
Which companies pay the most for manager engineering roles in the United States?
Among employers with at least two published bands, the highest medians right now are at Anthropic ($363k), Decagon ($355k), Perplexity ($353k).
Where does this data come from?
Base pay only, as employers publish it in their own job posts: the midpoint of each annual range, in the currency most postings use. Equity, bonus and commission are not in it. Updated daily.
Base pay only, as employers publish it in their own job posts: the midpoint of each annual range, in the currency most postings use. Equity, bonus and commission are not in it. Read off the live postings on Refolk's job board, where an employer is only counted while the posting is open. Updated daily.