Real salary data

What General and Operations Managers actually earn in 2026.

The median for General and Operations Manager is $124,800 across 3860 real salary records (H-1B visa filings and tech job postings), updated Sep 14, 2026.

01 / By source

Real salary bands, by source.

Bands come from 3860 real records. Each source has a different bias, disclosed below.

Approximate salary distribution$124,800

Density curve fitted to the observed quartiles (log-normal). $80,080–$180,000 contains the middle 50% of records in the best-represented source; the shape between them is an approximation.

Source	Records	25th pct	Median	75th pct
H-1B visa filings	3,860	$80,080	$124,800	$180,000
Job postings	309	$50,960	$87,500	$130,200
Tech job postings	28	$198,375	$233,250	$280,875

H-1B visa filings (DOL) — over-represents visa-eligible roles (typically high-skill, high-wage)
Job postings that disclose salary in the ad text
Tech/startup job postings with published salary bands (Ashby ATS)

Salary data updated Sep 14, 2026. Bands are percentiles, not averages; n is the number of underlying records.

02 / By city

What General and Operations Managers earn, by city.

Real records; cities with at least 10 observations.

City	Records	Range (p25–p75)	Median
New York, NY	485	$105,000 – $204,000	$149,000
San Francisco, CA	187	$128,000 – $212,430	$172,786
Houston, TX	138	$67,950 – $168,875	$95,750
Miami, FL	91	$77,498 – $155,000	$120,000
Los Angeles, CA	88	$70,000 – $180,500	$120,000
Austin, TX	78	$98,882 – $209,822	$153,750
Brooklyn, NY	76	$88,750 – $172,125	$130,000
Chicago, IL	55	$62,250 – $185,750	$105,060
Denver, CO	47	$80,134 – $179,100	$124,176
Seattle, WA	47	$118,770 – $197,154	$167,000
Dallas, TX	42	$83,964 – $157,500	$118,739
Boston, MA	36	$98,250 – $190,463	$150,000

03 / By state

What General and Operations Managers earn, by state.

State	Records	Range (p25–p75)	Median
CA	897	$100,000 – $190,000	$140,795
NY	676	$96,072 – $196,880	$137,500
TX	509	$78,000 – $170,000	$109,990
FL	312	$68,650 – $149,968	$101,289
NJ	189	$76,128 – $179,300	$123,302
IL	126	$62,875 – $170,872	$98,000
MA	120	$79,500 – $191,666	$150,000
GA	110	$65,000 – $133,090	$95,000
WA	100	$113,381 – $197,077	$160,000
MI	74	$70,500 – $161,096	$102,545
CO	73	$87,500 – $180,000	$130,000
VA	69	$73,278 – $160,000	$105,000

04 / Context

How General and Operations Managers pay compares with similar roles.

Profession	Risk	Median	Outlook
Administrative Assistant	Critical	$48,620	-1.6% (2024–34)
Compensation and Benefits Manager	Medium	$178,900	+0.2% (2024–34)
Customer Service Representative	High	$40,300	-5.5% (2024–34)
Data Entry Clerk	Critical	$44,834	-25.9% (2024–34)
Executive Administrative Assistant	High	$75,000	-1.6% (2024–34)

05 / Next step

How to move up the pay band.

The skills below appear most often in higher-paid roles:

06 / FAQ

Salary questions, answered.

01Why are the bands different from the BLS median?

The BLS median covers all General and Operations Manager in the US. These bands come from real records with known biases — H-1B filings skew to visa-eligible (high-skill) roles and tech postings skew to tech employers — so they sit above the national median. We disclose the source of every band.

02How often is this data updated?

The dataset refreshes weekly from live job postings and quarterly from new H-1B disclosures.

Methodology