Side-by-side distribution
MLOps
$187,500
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 18.9%
- Live roles
- 127
Technical Product Manager
$190,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 53.9%
- Live roles
- 1,026
Highest-paying jobs
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, DevOps/SRE
Staff Machine Learning Operations Engineer
Senior Data Engineer, MLOps [Remote-US]
Senior, ML Engineer - ML Ops Framework
Senior, ML Engineer - ML Ops Framework
Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer
Staff ML/LLM Ops Engineer
Sr. Machine Learning Ops Engineer
DoD MLOps Software Engineer
Sr. Machine Learning Ops Engineer
Highest-paying jobs
Technical Program Manager
Technical Program Manager
Staff Technical Program Manager, Physical Design
Director, RISC-V Software TPM & Ops
Technical Program Manager, Product Software
Technical Program Manager, Architecture
Technical Program Manager, Hardware Chips Development
Technical Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product
Technical Program Manager, API Platform
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Garner Health
|
$297,500 | 2 |
|
Torc Robotics
|
$249,000 | 2 |
|
Quanata
|
$256,500 | 1 |
|
Roku
|
$254,875 | 1 |
|
LVT
|
$242,650 | 1 |
|
Hayden AI
|
$230,000 | 1 |
Instacart
|
$212,750 | 1 |
|
Cimgroup
|
$200,000 | 1 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$193,000 | 60 |
|
Anthropic
|
$345,000 | 14 |
Aurora Innovation
|
$221,500 | 14 |
|
OpenAI
|
$271,000 | 12 |
Fluidstack
|
$213,000 | 12 |
| SA Scale AI | $217,350 | 10 |
Scout Motors
|
$155,000 | 10 |
CoreWeave
|
$207,000 | 9 |
Technical Product Manager salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $215,000 | 127 |
| Austin | $213,000 | 15 |
| London | $209,051 | 5 |
| New York | $203,000 | 86 |
| Seattle | $203,000 | 51 |
| Denver | $173,568 | 10 |
| Boston | $172,500 | 27 |
| Los Angeles | $164,500 | 10 |
| Chicago | $147,500 | 3 |
| Toronto | $130,000 | 13 |
MLOps vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?
The median for MLOps is $187,500 per year (typically $147,500–$236,325), versus $190,000 for Technical Product Manager ($155,000–$220,000). That puts Technical Product Manager about 1% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so MLOps 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.