Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Program Manager: $157K median posted pay.
From 323 salary bands employers posted on 600 open program manager roles in operations. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 155 | $181K | — |
| Principal | 28 | $180K | — |
| Staff | 14 | $174K | — |
| Mid | 8 | — (7 of 8 bands) | — |
| Management | 3 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
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.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| KBR | 22 | — |
| Northrop Grumman | 21 | — |
| Flextronics | 19 | — |
| CesiumAstro | 18 | — |
| Sierra Nevada Corporation | 13 | — |
| Rocket Lab | 10 | — |
| Thermofisher | 9 | — |
| RTX | 9 | — |
| SOSi | 9 | — |
| Micron | 9 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open program manager roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Program Management | 600 | — |
| Project Management | 346 | — |
| Risk Management | 166 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 140 | — |
| Supply Chain Coordination | 119 | — |
| Change Management | 94 | — |
| Stakeholder Management | 86 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 85 | — |
| Procurement | 70 | — |
| Forecasting | 64 | — |
Where the work is
7% of these roles are remote.
- Remote7%40 roles
- Hybrid4%25 roles
- On site75%447 roles
- Not stated15%88 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 600 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 323 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Program Manager (Nights)” counts here too. 82% of roles with this title sit in operations, 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.