Business Analyst vs Technical Product Manager

Put two roles head to head — any role, in any location or worldwide-remote.

Side A

Side B

Technical Product Manager pays about 67% more at the median.

Side-by-side distribution

Business Analyst Technical Product Manager
$107.5k
$180k
$51.7k box = 25th–75th · whiskers = 10th–90th $263.6k

Business Analyst

$107,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -13.5%
$124,225 $107,500
$86.3k 25th
$107.5k Median
$127.5k 75th
$66.3k
$150.5k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $6k – $315k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
26.1%
Live roles
3,767

Technical Product Manager

$180,000

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +2.9%
$175,000 $180,000
$149k 25th
$180k Median
$214k 75th
$121.7k
$249k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $6k – $565k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
48.2%
Live roles
1,805

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
State Street $110,000 30
CACI $127,550 26
Accenture Federal Services $130,450 22
McKesson $117,050 16
TB TD Bank $70,148 16
GU Guidehouse $122,500 15
Motorola Solutions $100,000 9
SpaceX $100,000 9

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Anduril Industries $194,500 66
Anthropic $381,250 26
Applied Materials $137,750 21
Blue Origin $174,226 19
OpenAI $271,000 17
Applied Intuition $168,500 12
Databricks $214,025 11
Mastercard $148,500 11

Business Analyst salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $130,000 19
New York $116,050 98
Boston $114,300 44
Chicago $112,555 40
Atlanta $110,000 21
Austin $109,750 16
Denver $106,900 11
Seattle $105,750 12
Los Angeles $104,783 12
Toronto $85,500 57

Technical Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $230,000 143
New York $205,000 124
Seattle $203,216 75
Los Angeles $196,000 20
Austin $174,325 42
Atlanta $174,000 10
Boston $172,000 35
Denver $161,575 10
Chicago $160,000 27
London $137,047 6

Business Analyst vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?

The median for Business Analyst is $107,500 per year (typically $86,320–$127,500), versus $180,000 for Technical Product Manager ($149,000–$213,983). That puts Technical Product Manager about 67% ahead at the median.

Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Business Analyst and Technical Product Manager are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.

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