Project Manager Salary by Country
What project managers are actually paid, by country. Drawn from 554,279 advertised roles across sixteen markets, collected on 9 October 2026.
Pick your country below. Each page shows the pay band rather than just the median — because the median tells you nothing about whether you are underpaid, and the band tells you everything.
Median advertised salary by country
| Country | Median (local) | Median (USD) | Adverts |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $106,365 | $106,365 | 139,643 |
| Australia | A$127,108 | $88,400 | 1,788 |
| Spain | €77,146 | $86,462 | 555 |
| Germany | €73,448 | $82,318 | 326 |
| France | €71,276 | $79,883 | 801 |
| United Kingdom | £58,539 | $77,380 | 19,121 |
| Canada | C$99,455 | $69,887 | 8,289 |
| South Africa | R474,944 | $28,585 | 3,057 |
| India | ₹811,089 | $8,372 | 5,749 |
Seven of the sixteen countries in the study are not listed here. Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, Poland, Mexico, Italy and the Netherlands had too few advertised roles to support a reliable country page — their figures appear in the full report with the appropriate caveats.
The finding that travels worst
“Senior” is a US and UK pay event, and almost nothing elsewhere.
The senior title adds 32% in the United States and 23% in the United Kingdom — against 2% in Spain and nothing at all in South Africa. Career advice to chase the senior title is overwhelmingly written by Americans, for Americans, and handed to a global profession.
Two more things worth knowing before you read your country page
The band matters more than the median. In the UK the middle half of project manager jobs span £44,862 to £73,381 — a £28,519 gap for the same job title. Quoting someone the median is how people end up anchored at the bottom of a range.
Spread varies wildly by country. India has the widest we measured: the 25th percentile sits at half the median and the 75th at nearly twice it, so two people with identical titles can be four times apart. Spain is the opposite, with the entire middle half inside 13 points of the median — there is almost nothing to negotiate.
About this data
It is 554,279 job adverts, showing what employers publicly offered on 9 October 2026.
It is not what people actually earn — advertised pay excludes bonus, pension and equity, and senior roles filled through networks never appear at all. Where a figure rests on a small sample, the country page says so on the row.
Full method and all sixteen countries: Project Manager Salary Report 2026
