The salary of an Engineering Manager in the United States varies depending on several factors, including experience, location, education level, marketing trend and company sizes.
As of April 01, 2025, the average hourly pay of Engineering Manager in the United States is $75. While Salary.com is seeing that Engineering Manager salary in the US can go up to $79 or down to $65, but most earn between $70 and $77. Salary.com shows the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Engineering Manager in the United States.
| Annual Salary |
Monthly Pay |
Weekly Pay |
Hourly Wage |
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| 75th Percentile | $77 | $6 | $1 | $0 |
| Average | $75 | $6 | $1 | $0 |
| 25th Percentile | $70 | $6 | $1 | $0 |
As of April 01, 2025, Salary.com is seeing that an entry-level Engineering Manager with under 1 year experience makes about $152,261. With less than 2 years of experience, a mid-level Engineering Manager makes around $152,742. After 2-4 years, the Engineering Manager pay rises to about $153,865. Those senior Engineering Manager with 5-8 years of experience earn roughly $155,147, and those Engineering Manager having 8 years or more experience is expected to earn about $156,396 on average.
| Levels | Salary |
|---|---|
| Entry Level Engineering Manager | $152,261 |
| Intermediate Level Engineering Manager | $152,742 |
| Senior Level Engineering Manager | $153,865 |
| Specialist Level Engineering Manager | $155,147 |
| Expert Level Engineering Manager | $156,396 |
| Entry Level | 3% |
| Mid Level | 2% |
| Senior Level | 2% |
| Top Level | 1% |
| Experienced | 0% |
Salaries in the United States can vary significantly from state to state due to a multitude of factors, including cost of living, local economic conditions, and industry presence.
For example, as of April 01, 2025, the average yearly salary of Engineering Manager is $172,366 in California and in Massachusetts, the average annual salary goes to $170,069. While in New Jersey, an Engineering Manager earns $169,381 per year.
What Am I Worth?
Salaries in the United States can vary significantly from city to city due to a multitude of factors, including cost of living, local economic conditions, and industry presence.
For example, as of April 01, 2025, the average yearly salary of Engineering Manager in San Francisco, CA is $195,166 and in New York, NY, the average annual salary goes to $181,101. While an Engineering Manager earns $174,288 per year in Boston, MA.
For those exploring the changing dynamics of Engineering Manager salaries, Salary.com offers detailed insights through our Job Trending in CA Labor Market analysis. As of April 01, 2025, our research highlights a notable shift in Engineering Manager compensation over the past six years. For instance, the median salary has moved from $145,426 in 2023 to about $145,694 in 2024 (for a comprehensive analysis of Engineering Manager salary trends, click here). It's crucial to consider several elements, including geographical location, experience level, industry demand, and economic development, as they play a significant role in influencing salary variations.
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| Core Compensation | ||||
| Core Compensation | Median | % of Total | ||
| Base Salary | $156,270 | 73.0% | ||
| Bonus | $0 | 0.0% | ||
| Value of Benefits | ||||
| Core Compensation | Median | % of Total | ||
| Social Security | $11,955 | 5.6% | ||
| 401K/403B | $6,563 | 3.1% | ||
| Disability | $3,125 | 1.5% | ||
| Healthcare | $8,352 | 3.9% | ||
| Pension | $8,439 | 3.9% | ||
| Time Off | $19,233 | 9.0% | ||
| Total Compensation | $213,937 | 100% | ||
| Degree Level | % of user with this level of education |
|---|---|
| No Diploma | 0.2% |
| High School | 2.7% |
| Associates | 3.3% |
| Bachelors | 43.7% |
| Masters | 42.1% |
| Doctorate | 8.0% |
What Am I Worth?
Manages an organization's engineering activities to develop or improve technical products, systems, or processes that meet specified requirements and standards. Manages engineering projects through their entire lifecycle, including cost and requirement analysis, scheduling, and coordinating activities with stakeholders. Monitors schedules and deadlines and prioritizes projects to ensure timely delivery and customer satisfaction. Establishes engineering methodologies, principles, and tools to support training, process improvements, and best practices and protocols. Leads initiatives with other departments to identify potential products, projects, or opportunities. Remains informed of new technologies and processes and implements changes to improve engineering capabilities. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to a director. Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. True first level manager. Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Has full authority for personnel actions. Typically requires 5 years experience in the related area as an individual contributor. 1-3 years supervisory experience may be required. Extensive knowledge of the function and department processes.
Specify the abilities and skills that a person needs in order to carry out the specified job duties. Each competency has five to ten behavioral assertions that can be observed, each with a corresponding performance level (from one to five) that is required for a particular job.
Leadership: Knowledge of and ability to employ effective strategies that motivate and guide other members within our business to achieve optimum results.
Process Engineering: Process engineering is the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow us to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level. By taking advantage of the driving forces of nature such as pressure, temperature and concentration gradients, as well as the law of conservation of mass, process engineers can develop methods to synthesize and purify large quantities of desired chemical products. Process engineering focuses on the design, operation, control, optimization and intensification of chemical, physical, and biological processes. Process engineering encompasses a vast range of industries, such as agriculture, automotive, biotechnical, chemical, food, material development, mining, nuclear, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and software development. The application of systematic computer-based methods to process engineering is "process systems engineering".
Continuous Improvement: A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility. Some see CIPs as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management). W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organisational goals. The fact that it can be called a management process does not mean that it needs to be executed by 'management'; but rather merely that it makes decisions about the implementation of the delivery process and the design of the delivery process itself.
