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Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings

Care Manager: $79K median posted pay.

From 22 salary bands employers posted on 31 open care manager roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.

Median posted band$79K22 posted a band
Middle half$79K–$79K25th to 75th percentile
Open roles3119 posted in 30 days
Entry level2asking no prior experience
Remote58%as the postings state it

The ladder, by level

What each rung pays.

No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.

Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.

Who is hiring

The employers with the most open.

EmployerOpen rolesEntry level
Centene20—
Nyp3—
Osu3—
Ohio State University3—
Rivhs1—
Svh1—

Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open care manager roles tonight.

The skills, as the postings name them

What these postings ask for.

SkillPostingsAt entry
Registered Nursing31—
Case Management14—
Discharge Planning8—
Home Health Aide Work6—
Critical Care2—
Emergency Nursing2—
CPR and Basic Life Support2—
Continuous Improvement2—
Social Work2—
Utilization Review1—

Where the work is

58% of these roles are remote.

  • Remote58%18 roles
  • Hybrid0%0 roles
  • On site6%2 roles
  • Not stated35%11 roles

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How this was counted

Every figure is counted from 31 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 22 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Care Manager (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.