Product Manager 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 4% more at the median.

Side-by-side distribution

Product Manager Technical Product Manager
$170.5k
$177.5k
$97.4k box = 25th–75th · whiskers = 10th–90th $257.8k

Product Manager

$170,450

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +5.7%
$161,225 $170,450
$136.1k 25th
$170.5k Median
$206.1k 75th
$108.5k
$241k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $5.5k – $900k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
39.2%
Live roles
11,647

Technical Product Manager

$177,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +1.4%
$175,000 $177,500
$149k 25th
$177.5k Median
$211.8k 75th
$117.5k
$246.8k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $6k – $565k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
48.2%
Live roles
1,807

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Abbott $170,000 41
Anduril Industries $176,250 40
HP $138,213 32
Harvey $205,125 30
DI Disney $182,200 29
Databricks $185,925 28
Bank of America $176,050 28
Anthropic $345,000 24

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Anduril Industries $193,000 66
Applied Materials $137,750 26
Anthropic $362,500 24
Blue Origin $174,226 22
OpenAI $296,000 21
Applied Intuition $168,500 12
Mastercard $152,000 12
Databricks $214,025 11

Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $210,000 778
Seattle $197,600 195
New York $190,000 967
Denver $179,000 95
Los Angeles $177,900 101
Austin $174,125 130
Boston $169,375 204
Chicago $161,800 197
Atlanta $161,231 86
London $155,348 77

Technical Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $228,000 141
New York $200,000 119
Seattle $192,741 73
Los Angeles $180,000 18
Austin $168,125 42
Atlanta $167,813 8
Boston $164,500 39
Denver $162,500 13
Chicago $159,600 28
London $133,220 7

Product Manager vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?

The median for Product Manager is $170,450 per year (typically $136,105–$206,075), versus $177,500 for Technical Product Manager ($149,000–$211,770). That puts Technical Product Manager about 4% ahead at the median.

Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Product Manager 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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