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 6% more at the median.

Side-by-side distribution

Product Manager Technical Product Manager
$180k
$190k
$98.5k box = 25th–75th · whiskers = 10th–90th $260.8k

Product Manager

$180,000

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +11.6%
$161,225 $180,000
$145.6k 25th
$180k Median
$213.2k 75th
$109.7k
$247.5k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $5k – $999k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
41.9%
Live roles
6,608

Technical Product Manager

$190,000

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +8.6%
$175,000 $190,000
$155k 25th
$190k Median
$220k 75th
$130k
$249.6k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $5.3k – $2,000k · outliers off-axis
Disclosing
53.3%
Live roles
1,011

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Fundraise Up $6,725 36
Anduril Industries $193,000 28
Datadog $216,000 25
Databricks $185,925 25
Airwallex $221,250 22
OpenAI $309,000 21
Snowflake $243,750 21
Glean $210,000 21

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Anduril Industries $193,000 66
Anthropic $345,000 14
OpenAI $271,000 11
SA Scale AI $209,150 10
Scout Motors $155,000 9
Pinterest $222,907 8
AX Axon $170,625 8
Aurora Innovation $236,000 7

Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $207,500 623
New York $187,000 659
Seattle $186,463 128
Chicago $180,250 60
Los Angeles $180,000 54
Austin $180,000 35
Boston $177,950 112
Denver $173,568 39
Atlanta $159,825 22
London $144,098 67

Technical Product Manager salary by location

Location Median Roles
San Francisco $213,775 118
Austin $200,000 14
New York $195,000 81
Seattle $190,000 37
Boston $167,625 25
Los Angeles $165,000 11
Denver $163,284 10
Chicago $156,750 4
London $135,200 4
Toronto $126,107 10

Product Manager vs Technical Product Manager: which pays more?

The median for Product Manager is $180,000 per year (typically $145,600–$213,219), versus $190,000 for Technical Product Manager ($155,000–$220,000). That puts Technical Product Manager about 6% 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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