Management

Management owns direction, trade-offs, and outcomes across teams.

Salary from $2,262 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,414 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 2,057 Last 3 months
Applications per job 27.19 JobNote category match
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Published signal

IT management + Leadership family
$2,500 Project Management median
$3,550 Product Management median
$2,880 other management median
$6,110 Tech Leadership median

Hiring Ask for one hard decision, the metric it changed, and what the candidate stopped doing.

Candidate Show scope, decision quality, and business impact—not team size alone.

Data Three broad DOU management groups; exact responsibilities and titles vary. Broad DOU leadership groups, not exact executive-title medians; Engineering Managers moved into Tech Leadership.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 263 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$2000
Median$3000
Upper quartile$4675
Year over year 0.0%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile
Historical DOU salary range by survey month and year
Survey Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Respondents
$3600 $4200 $5000 41
$3400 $4500 $5000 49
$1800 $3200 $5000 374
$1900 $3500 $5000 439
$2000 $3665 $5605 317
$1855 $3700 $5500 346
$3000 $4800 $6925 208
$1847 $3000 $4700 664
$2000 $3250 $5000 675
$2000 $3000 $4675 263

Other management and general leadership respondents · 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.

Analytics 462 $1862–$3251 Project Management 305 $1483–$2750 Stakeholder Management 200 $2138–$3732 Product Management 194 $2533–$4550 A/B Testing 135 $2370–$3796 Jira 134 $1474–$2540 Communication 129 $1204–$2280 Leadership 118 $2494–$4618 Scrum 118 $2039–$3631 Risk Management 113 $1916–$3489

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Manager salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Non-technical salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·