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Public Relations Manager salary

Computed from the stated pay ranges of 21 Public Relations Manager listings we ingested in the last 90 days - not a survey, not a model. Base salary only; bonus and variable pay are quoted too inconsistently to publish.

  • 21 priced listings
  • Rolling 90-day window
  • Updated Sep 10, 2026
Median base salary

$144k

Half of Public Relations Manager listings pay more than this, half pay less.

Median $144k25th · $127k75th · $205k

Scale runs $0k$400k. Bar spans the middle 50% of listings.

$144kMedian base
$127k–$205kMiddle 50%
21Priced listings · 90d
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The distribution

One median hides a wide role.

Public Relations Manager” covers very different jobs at very different scales under one title. The spread below is real - it is the shape of what employers are posting, not noise in the data.

21 listing midpoints, binned$0k–$400k
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$0k$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k$300k$350k

Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its stated range. Columns are on the same scale as the hero.

Percentilesn = 21
10th percentile
The bottom of the published span
$107k
25th percentile
Bottom of the middle 50%
$127k
50th - median
The published number
$144k
75th percentile
Top of the middle 50%
$205k
90th percentile
The top of the published span
$209k

Read off the sorted midpoints with percentile_cont, interpolating between neighbours where it falls between two.

The mechanism

Every number here, traced.

1

We matched 21 listings to this title in the last 90 days that state an annual base range. Listings without one are excluded entirely.

2

Each listing contributes its pay midpoint - one value, one vote. A wide range doesn’t get extra weight.

3

21 clears the 5-listing threshold, so the median is published. Roles that don’t clear it say so instead of showing a number.

4

Postings age out of the window automatically - nothing is carried forward. See our data commitments.

Compute trace

Public Relations Manager - 21 priced listings, sorted by midpoint ($k).

All 21 midpoints, sorted

5792107118121127130130133133144165175178180205205207209212313

21 values, so the median is the 11th - read straight off the list, with nothing interpolated. Every chip is one listing from the last 90 days that you can open below.

Published: $144k median base

Read this before you negotiate

$144k is base. It is not the whole offer.

Variable pay is real money, and it is the part listings describe least consistently. Here is exactly what is inside the number and what isn’t.

Counted

Anything a listing states as guaranteed annual base pay, in USD, for a full-time role.

  • A stated annual base range
  • The base portion split out of an on-target-earnings figure
  • Full-time roles, remote or on-site

Not counted

Some of it is real money and some of it is just unreadable. Either way it stays out of the median rather than inflating it.

  • Commission, bonus, equity and signing bonuses
  • On-target earnings with no base split out
  • Hourly and contract rates - we will not annualize them for you
  • Ranges stated in another currency

Each of those is a rule in the extractor, not a judgement call - a listing that trips one stays unpriced rather than entering the median as a guess.

By location

Where the listings are.

The same rule applies per market: 3 priced listings or no median. 2 markets clear it in this window. Markets that fall short still get a row with their count, so you can see how close they are rather than wonder why yours is missing. This table covers the 18 of 21 priced listings that name a place - the other 3 are remote, nationwide, carry no location line at all, or are written as something we can’t place on a map (a campus or a building name). They still count toward the median above.

LocationMedian basevs. role
New York, NY7 priced listings
$144k±0%
San Francisco, CA3 priced listings
$205k+42%
Boston, MA2 priced listings
1 more needed -
Chicago, IL2 priced listings
1 more needed -
Los Angeles, CA2 priced listings
1 more needed -
Stanford, CA2 priced listings
1 more needed -

Bars are on the same $0k$400k scale as the hero. Striped rows are below the publishing threshold. 4 further markets are not shown - the long tail is mostly single listings in towns of their own. Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it is counted.

The underlying listings

Every number traces back to a job you can open.

These are the actual postings behind the median - the employers running more than one priced req, and the most recent priced listings from the last 90 days. A few may have closed since; they stay listed because the median was computed over them.

Questions

About this number.

Base only. $144k is the median of the annual base ranges stated by 21 Public Relations Manager listings ingested in the last 90 days. Bonus, commission, equity and signing bonuses are excluded, because listings describe them inconsistently - including them would make the number bigger and less true.

Real job listings ingested via LandEarly in the last 90 days - not a survey, not a model. Each listing contributes its pay midpoint, the average of the minimum and maximum it states. Listings without a usable annual range are excluded from the maths entirely.

The middle 50% of Public Relations Manager salaries - the 25th to 75th percentile - runs from $127k to $205k, based on 21 priced listings. The full published span is $107k at the 10th percentile to $209k at the 90th.

The window is the last 90 days and it rolls forward as we ingest new postings - this page rebuilds every six hours. A listing that ages out of the window drops out of the median; nothing is carried forward or back-filled.

A role needs at least 5 priced listings in the window before we publish a median. Below that we show the listing count instead, and that role's guide says so plainly rather than printing a figure computed from a handful of postings.

You know the number

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