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Content Marketing Manager Salary

Content Marketing Managers create the articles, guides, videos, and thought leadership that attract and educate potential customers. They think like publishers, building audiences through valuable content.

Salary by seniority

Live ranges from 9 real content marketing manager listings on Growth.Talent. Updated continuously. Base-salary figures benchmarked against Superpath, Robert Half, Payscale.

Junior (0-2 yrs)
$65K-$100K
Median: $75K
Mid (2-5 yrs)
$60K-$95K
Median: $75K
Senior (5-8 yrs)
$70K-$110K
Median: $85K
Lead/Director
$75K-$115K
Median: $90K

Salary by city

New York
$65K-$150K
median: $100K
San Francisco
$70K-$160K
median: $110K
Remote (US)
$55K-$130K
median: $90K

How we source this

9 base-salary datapoints across 3 public sources, 2020 to 2026, plus 9 live listings on Growth.Talent. We show every source rather than one blended number: the same title can pay very differently depending on who measured it and how.

Role measuredLevelBase salarySampleSource
Content Strategist2026Mid$93KRobert Half
Content Marketing Manager2026Manager$54K-$104KPayscale
Content Marketing Director2026Director$60K-$135KPayscale
Content Marketer2025Blended$100K316Superpath
Content Marketer2024Blended$111KSuperpath
Content Marketer2023Blended$95KSuperpath
Content Marketer2022Blended$94KSuperpath
Content Marketer2021Blended$85KSuperpath
Content Marketer2020Blended$80KSuperpath
VP Content2025VP$375K TCtotal compSuperpath

Base salary only. Equity-inclusive total-comp figures (Levels.fyi, Carta) are labelled and never blended into base. Primary sources: Superpath, Robert Half, Payscale. Benchmark refreshed 2026-08-12.

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