# Customer success manager salary: $123,100–$175,000 a year

Every number below comes from 303 tracked live postings whose title matches "customer success manager". No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=101 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median customer success manager posting offers $123,100–$175,000 a year (n=101).
- 47.5% of the 303 live postings matching "customer success manager" are remote.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Junior | 1 | $55,700–$129,400 |
| Mid-level | 32 | $123,100–$183,250 |
| Senior | 56 | $124,050–$175,000 |
| Lead | 1 | $150,100–$227,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 47 | $120,000–$164,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 54 | $123,100–$185,650 |

## Companies hiring customer success managers

- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (43)
- [MongoDB](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/mongodb) (18)
- [Datadog](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/datadog) (16)
- [Harvey](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/harvey) (16)
- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (14)
- [Anthropic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anthropic) (13)
- [Planet Labs](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/planet-labs) (9)
- [OpenAI](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/openai) (8)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "customer success manager", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 101 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page — below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: postings at tech companies tracked by Level. Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Customer success manager salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median customer success manager salary?**

Across 101 live US postings for customer success managers with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $123,100–$175,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many customer success managers jobs are remote?**

47.5% of the 101 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 0 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 219 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/customer-success-manager