Marketing Managers
United States. Estimated employment 395,240, with pages for 31 metro areas below.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 11-2021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
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$166,790 · 50th
$90,26010th
$123,02025th
$166,79050th
$216,41075th
$293,61090th
That is the median — half of marketing managers in the US earn more.
Table 1 — By metro area
Where it pays
Every published Marketing Managers page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.
| Metro area | Median | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $231,370 | 7,300 |
| San Francisco, CA | $220,480 | 11,170 |
| Boston, MA | $213,910 | 11,940 |
| Worcester, MA | $199,280 | 590 |
| New York, NY | $192,840 | 54,730 |
| Springfield, MA | $181,070 | 290 |
| San Diego, CA | $174,840 | 3,790 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $171,900 | 18,550 |
| Santa Maria, CA | $170,920 | 340 |
| Oxnard, CA | $169,540 | 620 |
| Santa Cruz, CA | $168,980 | 150 |
| Chicago, IL | $165,340 | 17,400 |
| Austin, TX | $164,920 | 7,170 |
| Sacramento, CA | $164,270 | 1,610 |
| Amherst Town, MA | $161,020 | 110 |
| Kiryas Joel, NY | $156,780 | 500 |
| Dallas, TX | $155,460 | 16,320 |
| Peoria, IL | $155,400 | 480 |
| Syracuse, NY | $155,360 | 660 |
| Glens Falls, NY | $154,960 | 100 |
| Albany, NY | $153,580 | 1,050 |
| Houston, TX | $153,030 | 8,930 |
| Binghamton, NY | $150,020 | 150 |
| Midland, TX | $149,510 | 290 |
| Rochester, NY | $149,440 | 1,470 |
| Springfield, IL | $141,530 | 160 |
| Sherman, TX | $139,040 | 110 |
| San Antonio, TX | $131,800 | 2,900 |
| Tyler, TX | $130,200 | 160 |
| Rockford, IL | $124,440 | 170 |
| Champaign, IL | $106,340 | 190 |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Employment
- 395,240 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 11-2021, Marketing Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as marketing-managers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.