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Engineering Manager Salary & Career Guide

What 684 live Engineering Manager postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
684
Employers
393
Remote
20%
Typical pay
$176k–301k
Verified live (7d)
668

Pay is advertised by 68% of these postings (462 of 684 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$220k21
3–5 years$200k130
6–9 years$203k163
10+ years$196k63

Skills in demand

Across 520 engineering manager postings that named at least one skill

  • Amazon Web Services28%
  • Large Language Models19%
  • Kubernetes17%
  • TypeScript15%
  • Oracle Java12%
  • Google Cloud Platform9.2%
  • Apache Kafka7.9%
  • PostgreSQL7.5%
  • Datadog6.9%
  • GitHub6.9%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 538 postings stated one

0–2 years
4.8%
3–5 years
34%
6–9 years
43%
10+ years
19%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 475 postings stated one

Remote
27%
Hybrid
48%
On-site
24%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 164 postings stated one

High school
1.8%
Associate
0.6%
Bachelor's
91%
Master's
4.3%
Doctorate
1.8%

Employers hiring for this

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