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Project Manager Salary & Career Guide

What 1,645 live Project Manager postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
1,645
Employers
472
Remote
8%
Typical pay
$93k–180k
Verified live (7d)
1,356

Pay is advertised by 40% of these postings (660 of 1,645 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$82k43
3–5 years$101k261
6–9 years$118k136
10+ years$131k140

What skills do project manager jobs ask for?

Across 1,189 project manager postings that named at least one skill

PMP is named by 40% of the 1,189 project manager postings that name any skill. Professional Engineer follows at 18%.

  • PMP40%
  • Professional Engineer18%
  • Autodesk AutoCAD11%
  • Microsoft Project8.7%
  • Instagram8.5%
  • Atlassian JIRA6.6%
  • Microsoft SharePoint5.0%
  • Smartsheet4.6%
  • Scrum4.4%
  • Confluence3.1%

How much experience do project manager jobs ask for?

Minimum years named in the posting · 1,368 postings stated one

3–5 years is the most common minimum, named by 42% of the 1,368 project manager postings that state one.

0–2 years
9.3%
3–5 years
42%
6–9 years
23%
10+ years
25%

Are project manager jobs remote?

Where the work is done · 846 postings stated one

14% of the 846 project manager postings that say where the work happens are remote, against 39% hybrid and 47% on-site.

Remote
14%
Hybrid
39%
On-site
47%

Do project manager jobs need a degree?

The floor the posting sets · 986 postings stated one

Bachelor's is the most common floor, set by 89% of the 986 project manager postings that state one.

High school
4.4%
Associate
1.9%
Bachelor's
89%
Master's
4.1%
Doctorate
0.3%

Employers hiring for this

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