Scrum Master 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 37% more at the median.

Side-by-side distribution

Scrum Master Technical Product Manager
$130k
$177.5k
$76.7k box = 25th–75th · whiskers = 10th–90th $258.5k

Scrum Master

$130,000

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -8.3%
$141,702 $130,000
$103.3k 25th
$130k Median
$152.9k 75th
$89.2k
$175k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $15.9k – $290k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
29.7%
Live roles
239

Technical Product Manager

$177,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +1.4%
$175,000 $177,500
$148.6k 25th
$177.5k Median
$211.6k 75th
$117.3k
$246k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $6k – $565k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
48.2%
Live roles
1,811

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
CACI $160,950 11
Leidos $129,575 9
Northrop Grumman $93,364 5
Accenture Federal Services $152,450 4
Booz Allen Hamilton $121,950 4
GDIT $170,000 3
PA Parsons $154,300 2
NT Concepts $135,585 2

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

Scrum Master salary by location

Location Median Roles
New York $115,000 3

Technical Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $228,000 143
New York $200,000 117
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 $137,047 6

Scrum Master vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?

The median for Scrum Master is $130,000 per year (typically $103,281–$152,888), versus $177,500 for Technical Product Manager ($148,625–$211,599). That puts Technical Product Manager about 37% ahead at the median.

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