Project Manager

Project Manager makes cross-team delivery predictable without hiding risk.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $1,238 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,282 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 1,771 Last 3 months
Applications per job 48.61 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact role
$3,400 Senior Project Manager
$2,000 Middle Project Manager
$904 Junior Project Manager
$3,325 Senior Project Manager

Hiring Ask how the candidate changed scope, sequence, or ownership when delivery was at risk.

Candidate Show outcomes, resolved constraints, and decisions—not ceremony counts.

Data Level-specific net monthly medians; not one blended role median.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 555 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$1500
Median$2300
Upper quartile$3244
Year over year -2.1%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Project managers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Project Management 629 $1483–$2750 Stakeholder Management 275 $2138–$3732 Risk Management 216 $1916–$3489 Jira 191 $1474–$2540 Scrum 171 $2039–$3631 Analytics 169 $1862–$3251 Agile 168 $1935–$3347 Communication 152 $1204–$2280 Confluence 105 $1731–$2808 Budgeting 90 $1807–$3607 Kanban 84 $1915–$3468 MS Office 78 $1246–$2212

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Manager salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Manager salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·