Which pays more, Engineering Manager or Technical Product 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

Engineering Manager vs Technical Product Manager

Engineering Manager pays more: a median of $172,000 against $124,500. There is 2.4× more demand for Technical Product Manager. Engineering Manager is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.1%. Listings for Technical Product Manager move faster — median age 35 days against 68.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Engineering Manager	Technical Product Manager	Gap
Open postings	10,464	25,497	-15,033
Posted this week	684	1,946
Median salary	$172,000	$124,500	+$47.5k
25th percentile	$136k	$98.5k
75th percentile	$214k	$155k
Salary disclosed	8.1%	5.6%
Remote share	12.7%	6.6%	+6.1pp
Median age of posting	68d	35d
Open over 60 days	43.4%	39.7%
Visa sponsorship	20.8%	21.2%

Pay

Pay distribution

Engineering Manager

$77k$298k

Technical Product Manager

$56k$215k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Engineering Manager

just posted68d median90d+

Technical Product Manager

just posted35d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Engineering Manager — technologies

SQL

72.0%

Figma

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Spark

53.4%

Kubernetes

47.2%

React

41.0%

PostgreSQL

34.8%

Technical Product Manager — technologies

SQL

72.0%

Tableau

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

GCP

53.4%

AWS

47.2%

Azure

41.0%

Figma

34.8%

Engineering Manager — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Solstice Biotech

8.7%

Northwind Systems

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Rivergate Media

5.8%

Pinewood Education

5.1%

Technical Product Manager — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Umbra Security

8.7%

Aperture Labs

8.0%

Fairmount Legal

7.2%

Halcyon Energy

6.5%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.8%

Meridian Software

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%.