Engineering manager salary in the US
Employers across the US offered engineering managers a median of $162,951 a year on approved H-1B applications. That is 12.4% above offers to all software engineers.
Median offer
$162,951
All software engineer offers: $144,928
The middle half
$126,818 – $208,535
25th to 75th percentile
H-1B applications
9,838
From 1,997 employers
Open engineering manager jobs
2,048
In the US, from over 900 companies
Pay range
The top 10% of engineering manager offers across the US were above $250,000 a year. The bottom 10% were below $110,094.
10th percentile $110,094, 25th $126,818, 75th $208,535, 90th $250,000.
10th percentile $82,460, 25th $105,210, 75th $171,980, 90th $214,670.
Line: 10th to 90th percentile. Box: the middle half (25th to 75th). Dark mark: the median. Engineering managers: salaries offered on H-1B applications. All software engineers: salaries paid, from the BLS.
Engineering manager offers by city
Median salary offered to engineering managers on approved H-1B applications in each metro area with at least 30 of them.
| City | Applications | Median offer |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, CA | 646 | $239,475 |
| San Jose, CA | 880 | $236,630 |
| Seattle, WA | 762 | $216,600 |
| San Diego, CA | 110 | $187,600 |
| Washington, DC | 206 | $178,400 |
| New York, NY | 1,046 | $175,609 |
| Austin, TX | 369 | $170,000 |
| Boston, MA | 219 | $169,400 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | 70 | $166,000 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 175 | $163,550 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,056 | $151,504 |
| Houston, TX | 103 | $150,000 |
| Raleigh, NC | 199 | $150,000 |
| Denver, CO | 89 | $145,995 |
| Miami, FL | 67 | $145,723 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 220 | $142,771 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 31 | $139,640 |
| Charlotte, NC | 286 | $133,536 |
| Chicago, IL | 389 | $132,434 |
| Atlanta, GA | 378 | $130,562 |
| Baltimore, MD | 40 | $128,419 |
| St. Louis, MO | 89 | $120,000 |
Engineering managers and other engineering jobs in the US
Median salary offered on approved H-1B applications across the US, for every engineering job type with at least 30 applications.
| Job | Applications | Median offer |
|---|---|---|
| Machine learning engineers | 2,801 | $178,350 |
| Engineering managers | 9,838 | $162,951 |
| Forward deployed engineers | 280 | $160,000 |
| Infrastructure engineers | 895 | $159,594 |
| Site reliability engineers | 1,122 | $146,758 |
| All software engineers | 118,728 | $144,928 |
| AI engineers | 1,688 | $141,866 |
| Platform engineers | 411 | $140,046 |
| Android engineers | 411 | $135,699 |
| iOS engineers | 351 | $134,550 |
| Frontend engineers | 945 | $130,000 |
| Cloud engineers | 1,357 | $129,055 |
| Data engineers | 8,762 | $123,974 |
| Support engineers | 1,577 | $117,749 |
| DevOps engineers | 2,192 | $115,731 |
All software engineers: every application filed under the BLS software developer job code, whatever its title. Backend and full-stack engineers: left out, since a plain "Software Engineer" title counts as both.
Experience level of these offers
From October 2025 to June 2026, the Department of Labor approved 9,838 H-1B applications for engineering managers across the US, from 1,997 employers. Level III and Level IV offers were the most common.
Applications
9,838
Employers
1,997
Most experienced (Level IV)
35.8%
Applications by wage level
- Level I (entry): 226
- Level II: 1,081
- Level III: 3,483
- Level IV (most experienced): 3,518
- Not stated: 1,530
These are salaries offered on approved applications, not salaries paid. Each application lists only its main work site.
2,048 open engineering manager jobs in the US right now
From over 900 companies. 183 were posted in the past week.
Engineering manager salaries by city: San Francisco, New York, San Jose, Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Denver, Atlanta
What counts as an engineering manager
The BLS has no category for managers of software engineers alone, so these figures come from job titles. An H-1B application or a job on hiredaemon counts as an engineering manager job when its title names managing engineers, such as "Engineering Manager", "Software Development Manager" or "Director of Engineering".
Sources and notes
- Engineering manager offers: US Department of Labor, H-1B application data, October 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Approved H-1B applications whose job title names managing engineers and whose work site is in the US.
- Software engineer pay: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (published May 15, 2026), whole US.
- Open jobs: counted on hiredaemon as this page loads.