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 3% more at the median.

Side-by-side distribution

Product Manager Technical Product Manager
$180k
$185.5k
$99.1k box = 25th–75th · whiskers = 10th–90th $266.5k

Product Manager

$180,000

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +11.6%
$161,225 $180,000
$145k 25th
$180k Median
$215.1k 75th
$110.6k
$255k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $5k – $900k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
43.1%
Live roles
6,834

Technical Product Manager

$185,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +6%
$175,000 $185,500
$154.5k 25th
$185.5k Median
$220k 75th
$126.5k
$251k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $6k – $621.9k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
45.5%
Live roles
1,261

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Elastic $129,001 43
Fundraise Up $6,804 42
OpenAI $313,500 30
Anduril Industries $181,000 30
Databricks $185,925 28
Harvey $222,100 26
Airwallex $222,500 25
Fivetran $234,669 24

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Anduril Industries $193,000 40
Anthropic $400,000 21
OpenAI $255,500 21
AX Axon $170,625 13
SE Sezzle $78,000 12
Palantir $126,500 9
Fluidstack $217,000 8
SA Scale AI $205,550 8

Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
Sydney $621,920 4
Singapore $230,000 5
San Francisco $212,500 669
New York $198,875 665
Seattle $198,875 136
Boston $187,125 98
Los Angeles $178,950 56
Chicago $175,000 73
Denver $173,350 46
Austin $171,500 42

Technical Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
London $244,450 4
San Francisco $221,750 143
Seattle $211,770 39
Austin $195,000 13
Boston $192,445 22
New York $190,000 100
Los Angeles $174,000 13
Atlanta $172,813 6
Chicago $162,000 13
Denver $153,000 3

Product Manager vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?

The median for Product Manager is $180,000 per year (typically $145,000–$215,050), versus $185,500 for Technical Product Manager ($154,500–$220,000). That puts Technical Product Manager about 3% 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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