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Engineering Manager Salary & Career Guide

What 477 live Engineering Manager postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
477
Employers
306
Remote
21%
Typical pay
$168k–310k
Verified live (7d)
456

Pay is advertised by 67% of these postings (320 of 477 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$213k15
3–5 years$201k94
6–9 years$196k115
10+ years$186k43

What skills do engineering manager jobs ask for?

Across 356 engineering manager postings that named at least one skill

Amazon Web Services is named by 28% of the 356 engineering manager postings that name any skill. Large Language Models follows at 20%.

  • Amazon Web Services28%
  • Large Language Models20%
  • TypeScript19%
  • Kubernetes17%
  • Google Cloud Platform11%
  • Microsoft Azure10%
  • Oracle Java9.6%
  • Apache Kafka7.6%
  • Databricks7.3%
  • Node.js7.3%

How much experience do engineering manager jobs ask for?

Minimum years named in the posting · 378 postings stated one

6–9 years is the most common minimum, named by 41% of the 378 engineering manager postings that state one.

0–2 years
6.1%
3–5 years
36%
6–9 years
41%
10+ years
17%

Are engineering manager jobs remote?

Where the work is done · 346 postings stated one

29% of the 346 engineering manager postings that say where the work happens are remote, against 42% hybrid and 29% on-site.

Remote
29%
Hybrid
42%
On-site
29%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 119 postings stated one

High school
3.4%
Associate
0.8%
Bachelor's
87%
Master's
7.6%
Doctorate
1.7%

Employers hiring for this

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