Project Manager Salary in Alabama (2026)

Worth knowing: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is the country's largest single-site civilian government program management environment outside JPL Pasadena and a feature most national PM-career surveys understate for AL. NASA Marshall (~6K civil servants + ~10K+ on-site contractors managing the Space Launch System rocket + Artemis lunar program propulsion + International Space Station payload operations + multiple major NASA programs from the Huntsville campus, established 1960 originally as the Saturn V rocket development center under Wernher von Braun) operates substantial program management at scale supporting some of the largest US government civilian programs — Marshall's Space Launch System alone is a ~$23B program over the past two decades, supporting hundreds of senior cleared program managers + technical leads. Senior Marshall + cleared contractor program managers clear $145-225K TC including TS/SCI clearance premium. The Cummings Research Park contractor PM cluster (Boeing + Lockheed + Northrop + L3Harris + Dynetics + Raytheon + SAIC + most major US defense contractors) supports substantial cleared aerospace + missile defense + cybersecurity PM. UAB Medicine Birmingham operates substantial academic medical center + research grant PM. The AL automotive cluster (Mercedes-Benz Vance + Honda Lincoln + Hyundai Montgomery + Mazda Toyota Huntsville + Toyota Engine Plant Huntsville producing ~1.4M+ vehicles annually) supports substantial NPI + plant expansion PM. Airbus Mobile Final Assembly (~1.5K + only Airbus FAL outside Europe + China, producing A220 + A321neo for North American market) anchors AL commercial aerospace PM. AL's 5% top + Federal Income Tax Deduction + RTW since 1953.