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Engineering Manager Salary & Career Guide

What 655 live Engineering Manager postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
655
Employers
382
Remote
20%
Typical pay
$178k–305k
Verified live (7d)
640

Pay is advertised by 67% of these postings (439 of 655 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
0–2 years$220k20
3–5 years$200k123
6–9 years$204k152
10+ years$196k61

Skills in demand

Across 502 engineering manager postings that named at least one skill

  • Amazon Web Services28%
  • Large Language Models18%
  • Kubernetes17%
  • TypeScript15%
  • Oracle Java12%
  • Microsoft Azure10.0%
  • Google Cloud Platform9.2%
  • Apache Kafka8.0%
  • PostgreSQL7.6%
  • Datadog7.2%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 512 postings stated one

0–2 years
4.9%
3–5 years
34%
6–9 years
42%
10+ years
19%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 454 postings stated one

Remote
28%
Hybrid
48%
On-site
24%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 155 postings stated one

High school
1.9%
Associate
0.7%
Bachelor's
92%
Master's
4.5%
Doctorate
1.3%

Employers hiring for this

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