Marketing Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Marketing Managers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $111,210. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 384,980 people in May 2024, 0.25% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 56,300 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 38.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in District of Columbia, whose location quotient of 2.11 says this work is 2.11 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $161,030 and the mean of $171,520. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 51 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 56,300 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $192,480. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Marketing Managers stands number 95 by employment and number 31 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 51% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.5% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 10 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $161,030, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 49,750 jobs, 12.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 337 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $100,800 a year, against $284,960 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $161,030 a year is $13,419 a month gross, $6,193 every two weeks, $3,097 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($111,210) to the 75th ($211,080) is worth $99,870 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $13,419 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $177,133 would sit between the median ($161,030) and the 75th percentile ($211,080), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $111,210, is $49,820 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Medical and Health Services Managers, Construction Managers, Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary, Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers, Administrative Services Managers, Food Service Managers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.