Boston · United States
Engineering Manager salary in Boston
The median salary in Engineering Manager job ads in Boston, United States is $180,000 a year (about $15,000 a month before tax). The middle half of those ads list $166,625 to $206,250, based on 8 salaries from 7 employers, updated 15 Nov 2026. With only 8 ads, the median itself could lie anywhere in that range.
Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Architectural and Engineering Managers: official pay in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025
In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, architectural and engineering managers (SOC 11-9041) earned a median $205,130 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 8 job ads for Boston jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $180,000.
- 10th percentile
- $138,960
- 25th percentile
- $167,540
- Median
- $205,130
- 75th percentile
- $226,770
- 90th percentile
- $290,440
Jobiba's job-ad median is 12% below the BLS median.
Occupation: Architectural and Engineering Managers (SOC 11-9041) · 6,690 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area, all industries and employer sizes (self-employed excluded) — not only jobs that are advertised. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (metropolitan area data) (public domain), retrieved 1 Nov 2026.
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- Median in job ads
- $180,000
- a year
- Salaries
- 8
- from 7 employers
- Last updated
- 15 Nov 2026
- 12-month window to 15 Nov 2026
Salary range
Where pay sits in Boston
- 10th percentile
- $161,750
- 25th percentile
- $166,625
- Median
- $180,000
- 75th percentile
- $206,250
- 90th percentile
- $213,000
8 salaries · 9 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.
Compared with the United States median of 800 salaries: down −23.1%
Based on 8 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 15 Nov 2026
Pay listed by employers
Latest Engineering Manager jobs that show their pay in Boston
Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.
- Embedded Engineering ManagerWhoop · Senior level · posted 11 Nov 2026$150,000 – $215,000
- Manager, Platform EngineeringInterSystems · Senior level · posted 10 Nov 2026$133,000 – $192,000
- Applications Engineering Manager (Boston)Standard Bots · Mid level · posted 7 Nov 2026$140,000 – $180,000
- Engineering Manager - Embedded FirmwareAlarm.com · posted 7 Nov 2026$143,500 – $192,500
- Engineering Manager (Backend)Lendbuzz · Senior level · posted 7 Nov 2026$170,000 – $185,000
Evidence
Where these numbers come from
8 salaries from 7 employers, posted between 15 Nov 2025 and 15 Nov 2026. Last updated 15 Nov 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.
- Employer hiring-system feeds 100%
Frequently asked questions
Engineering Manager salary in Boston: common questions
What is the average Engineering Manager salary in Boston in 2026?
In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, architectural and engineering managers (SOC 11-9041) earned a median $205,130 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 8 job ads for Boston jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $180,000. The middle half of those job ads pay between $166,625 and $206,250 a year (25th to 75th percentile). With only 8 ads, the median itself could lie anywhere in that range.
How much does an Engineering Manager make a month in Boston?
About $15,000 a month before tax. That is the median of 8 salary-listed Engineering Manager job ads in Boston on Jobiba ($180,000 a year), divided by 12.
How does Engineering Manager pay in Boston compare with the United States median?
The Engineering Manager median in Boston is -23.1% versus the United States median for the same role on Jobiba.
How does Jobiba calculate Engineering Manager salary in Boston?
From 8 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.