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Customer Success Manager salary: median $115,000 a year

Customer Success Manager listings that state pay run from $84,500 to $135,000 for the middle half, based on 186 current job listings. 440 customer success manager roles are open now.

Customer Success Manager pay range

From 186 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars.

Lower quarter
$84,500
Median
$115,000
Upper quarter
$135,000

Do AI skills change customer success manager pay?

For Customer Success roles in general, as of November 9, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for customer success manager alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Customer Success listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise a median $140,000, against $114,500 for those that never mention AI (+22%). That raw gap is not matched on level or industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$140,000
median, from 232 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$114,500
median, from 295 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

See the AI-skill pay table for every function · Check your own pay against these listings

More pay data: Customer Success pay by level, skills that pay more and pay by employer size.

Customer Success Manager salary by state

States with at least 8 listings that state pay.

Between jobs? Unemployment benefits and severance rules in these states, or in every state.

Open customer success manager jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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All 440 customer success manager jobs

Customer Success jobs in the rankings

Rankings about customer success jobs

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Customer Success Manager salary questions

How much does a customer success manager make?
Among 186 open customer success manager listings that state pay, the median is $115,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $84,500 and $135,000.
Where does this customer success manager pay data come from?
From current job listings on employers’ own career sites that state a pay range. Hourly pay is converted at 2,080 hours a year, and a listing’s midpoint is used. Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
Which state pays customer success managers the most?
Of the states with enough listings, California has the highest median listed pay at $150,000.

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