Engineering Manager Salary in United States during 2025

💰 The median Engineering Manager Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 240,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 182 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average Engineering Manager salary lies between USD 200,000 and USD 303,000 in the United States. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Engineering Manager
Experience
all levels
Region
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
182
Top 10%
$ 385,000
Top 25%
$ 303,000
Median
$ 240,000
Bottom 25%
$ 200,000
Bottom 10%
$ 165,000

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Top 20 Job Tags for Engineering Manager roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Engineering Manager job listings are Engineering, Machine Learning and Python. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Engineering | 423 jobs Machine Learning | 279 jobs Python | 260 jobs Computer Science | 204 jobs Architecture | 184 jobs Security | 153 jobs Pipelines | 153 jobs AWS | 146 jobs SQL | 121 jobs Research | 116 jobs Privacy | 100 jobs Azure | 98 jobs Testing | 95 jobs Java | 95 jobs Agile | 91 jobs Data pipelines | 84 jobs GCP | 84 jobs Kubernetes | 83 jobs LLMs | 82 jobs Spark | 75 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Engineering Manager roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Engineering Manager job listings are Career development, Startup environment and Health care. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 373 jobs Startup environment | 201 jobs Health care | 190 jobs Equity / stock options | 184 jobs Flex hours | 128 jobs Competitive pay | 119 jobs Flex vacation | 96 jobs Parental leave | 94 jobs Salary bonus | 94 jobs Team events | 85 jobs Medical leave | 64 jobs Insurance | 61 jobs Wellness | 57 jobs 401(k) matching | 45 jobs Transparency | 37 jobs Home office stipend | 36 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 29 jobs Relocation support | 28 jobs Conferences | 19 jobs Fitness / gym | 17 jobs

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