Project Manager Salaries

The Job Description for a Project Manager includes meeting with personnel, setting benchmarks and milestones, and coordinating delivery. It's a job requiring a diverse array of skills, both technical and interpersonal. Being an IT project manager means Responsibility with a capital 'R' - responsibility to your team, to your company higher-ups, and to your clients. Fortunately, all that responsibility can be quite lucrative for a project manager who can handle the stress and bring projects in on time (bonus points if your team is still speaking to each other at the end!). Close study of project manager salary data reveals several key factors that can help kick the average project manager salary into overdrive.

In the IT industry, there are many different skills and programming languages that people can learn in order to earn a higher salary. Expanding his or her skill set is one of the key ways an IT professional can differentiate him or herself from the herd. Salary negotiations can also be helped along if a candidate has special certifications. If you're looking to improve your project manager salary, view the Project Manager Salaries by Certification report to see which certifications provide the biggest boost to project manager salaries. Measuring Project Manager Salary by City, you can see that the average project manager salary doesn't fluctuate wildly from place to place - good news for project managers on the move. The average project manager salary is higher in Washington, D.C. and New York, but don't forget to factor cost of living into your project manager salary research. Using the PayScale Cost of Living Calculator, you can compare Project Manager Salaries and Cost of Living Data for New York, Washington, D.C. and other cities.

For more information on the average project manager salary, as well as a first-hand account of what a project manager's daily life is like, read "IT Project Manager Salary Survey" in the Salary Stories blog.