Side by side

Account Manager vs Solutions Engineer

Account Manager pays more: a median of $103,000 against $98,500. There is 4.1× more demand for Account Manager. Listings for Solutions Engineer move faster — median age 52 days against 59.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureAccount ManagerSolutions EngineerGap
Open postings101,31824,536+76,782
Posted this week6,6611,760
Median salary$103,000$98,500+$4.5k
25th percentile$81.5k$78k
75th percentile$128k$122k
Salary disclosed7.9%4.9%
Remote share12.7%11.3%+1.4pp
Median age of posting59d52d
Open over 60 days31.0%49.8%
Visa sponsorship25.0%24.4%
Pay

Pay distribution

Account Manager

$46k$178k

Solutions Engineer

$44k$170k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Account Manager

just posted59d median90d+

Solutions Engineer

just posted52d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Account Manager — technologies

dbt
72.0%
Spark
65.8%
Snowflake
59.6%
Node.js
53.4%
React
47.2%
SQL
41.0%
Swift
34.8%

Solutions Engineer — technologies

Go
72.0%
Node.js
65.8%
Java
59.6%
Python
53.4%
JavaScript
47.2%
HubSpot
41.0%
Figma
34.8%

Account Manager — employers

Kestrel Health
9.4%
Tidewater Insurance
8.7%
Lakeshore Hospitality
8.0%
Quarry Analytics
7.2%
Aperture Labs
6.5%
Vantage Logistics
5.8%
Brightline Retail
5.1%

Solutions Engineer — employers

Brightline Retail
9.4%
Kestrel Health
8.7%
Aperture Labs
8.0%
Tidewater Insurance
7.2%
Rivergate Media
6.5%
Quarry Analytics
5.8%
Pinewood Education
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.