Side-by-side distribution
Product Owner
$142,400
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 20.1%
- Live roles
- 1,247
Technical Product Manager
$177,500
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 48.2%
- Live roles
- 1,811
Highest-paying jobs
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Director, Data and AI Product Owner, Research
Lead Technical Product Owner - Member Data Products
Lead Technical Product Owner - Bank Fraud/Operations
Senior Product Owner
Highest-paying jobs
TPM Manager, Infrastructure
Technical Program Manager, Platform & Runtime Engineering
Technical Program Manager
Technical Program Manager, Product Software
Technical Program Manager, Architecture
Technical Program Manager, Storage & Data Infrastructure
Technical Program Manager, Multimodal
Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards
Technical Program Manager, Model Deployment & Capacity
Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
PNC
|
$146,900 | 9 |
| MS Morgan Stanley | $112,500 | 9 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 8 |
| MT M&T Bank | $197,700 | 7 |
| US USAA | $150,590 | 7 |
| TB TD Bank | $113,620 | 7 |
Bank of America
|
$144,550 | 6 |
Johnson & Johnson
|
$166,513 | 5 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$193,000 | 64 |
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 |
Technical Product Manager salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $228,000 | 143 |
| New York | $200,000 | 119 |
| Seattle | $191,396 | 74 |
| 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 | $137,047 | 6 |
Product Owner vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?
The median for Product Owner is $142,400 per year (typically $112,500–$171,000), versus $177,500 for Technical Product Manager ($148,625–$211,599). That puts Technical Product Manager about 25% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Product Owner 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.