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 Oct 26, 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	451	$47,580	$85,400	$130,200
Tech job postings	32	$194,125	$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 Oct 26, 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	491	$101,029 – $203,000	$146,280
San Francisco, CA	196	$126,833 – $212,430	$168,000
Houston, TX	139	$68,300 – $168,875	$96,000
Miami, FL	96	$78,910 – $152,500	$120,000
Los Angeles, CA	93	$70,000 – $170,000	$120,000
Austin, TX	78	$98,882 – $209,822	$153,750
Brooklyn, NY	76	$88,750 – $172,125	$130,000
Seattle, WA	75	$44,855 – $184,610	$114,400
Chicago, IL	60	$61,125 – $185,188	$104,530
Denver, CO	52	$77,200 – $172,454	$121,214
Boston, MA	42	$69,472 – $180,000	$145,000
Dallas, TX	42	$83,964 – $157,500	$118,739

03 / By state

What General and Operations Managers earn, by state.

State	Records	Range (p25–p75)	Median
CA	918	$100,000 – $190,000	$140,691
NY	682	$95,000 – $195,925	$136,238
TX	511	$78,000 – $170,000	$109,990
FL	317	$70,000 – $149,968	$101,532
NJ	189	$76,128 – $179,300	$123,302
IL	133	$62,000 – $165,850	$98,000
WA	128	$76,851 – $186,500	$130,100
MA	127	$75,200 – $189,198	$140,961
GA	111	$65,000 – $133,060	$95,000
MI	80	$60,000 – $160,274	$95,500
CO	78	$80,267 – $177,400	$123,302
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	$46,800	-1.6% (2024–34)
Compensation and Benefits Manager	Medium	$178,900	+0.2% (2024–34)
Customer Service Representative	High	$39,520	-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