Which pays more, Content Marketing Manager or Marketing Manager?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Content Marketing Manager vs Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager pays more: a median of $97,500 against $91,000. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Marketing Manager move faster — median age 45 days against 95.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Content Marketing Manager	Marketing Manager	Gap
Open postings	25,358	32,417	-7,059
Posted this week	1,906	1,839
Median salary	$91,000	$97,500	$-6.5k
25th percentile	$72k	$77k
75th percentile	$113k	$121k
Salary disclosed	2.7%	2.5%
Remote share	7.0%	6.3%	+0.7pp
Median age of posting	95d	45d
Open over 60 days	34.6%	44.8%
Visa sponsorship	12.4%	23.0%

Pay

Pay distribution

Content Marketing Manager

$41k$157k

Marketing Manager

$44k$169k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Content Marketing Manager

just posted95d median90d+

Marketing Manager

just posted45d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Content Marketing Manager — technologies

AWS

72.0%

Swift

65.8%

Node.js

59.6%

PostgreSQL

53.4%

JavaScript

47.2%

Java

41.0%

Docker

34.8%

Marketing Manager — technologies

Node.js

72.0%

Kubernetes

65.8%

HubSpot

59.6%

Airflow

53.4%

Snowflake

47.2%

TypeScript

41.0%

GCP

34.8%

Content Marketing Manager — employers

Pinewood Education

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Tidewater Insurance

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Beacon Robotics

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

Marketing Manager — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing

9.4%

Vantage Logistics

8.7%

Rivergate Media

8.0%

Northwind Systems

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Quarry Analytics

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%.