Project Manager Salary in Massachusetts (2026)
The average Project Manager in Massachusetts earns around $115,000/year. After taxes, your estimated take-home is $84,203/year ($7,017/month).
Take-Home Pay Breakdown
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
Annual Take-Home Pay | $84,203 |
Monthly Take-Home Pay | $7,017 |
Biweekly Take-Home Pay | $3,239 |
Hourly Take-Home Pay based on 2,080 hrs/year | $40/hr |
Federal Tax | $16,470 |
State Tax | $5,530 |
FICA Taxes | $8,798 |
Effective Tax Rate total taxes ÷ gross salary | 26.78% |
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Project Manager Salary Ranges in Massachusetts
Not all Project Managers earn the same — not even close
Massachusetts's project management market is anchored by Kendall Square biotech program management (Moderna clinical trials, Vertex therapeutic-area program management, Biogen, Takeda), Mass General Brigham enterprise IT + capital projects PM (~80K employees), Fidelity Investments IT + product PM, State Street IT PM, Raytheon Technologies Waltham defense program management (cleared), MIT Lincoln Laboratory federally funded research PM (TS clearance specialty), plus the PMI Mass Bay Chapter (~3K+ active members).
Director / Senior PM Director
$185,000–$285,000+ TC
Biotech senior PMO director · Mass General senior IT director · Fidelity enterprise PMO · cleared director
Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM)
$155,000–$245,000
HubSpot TPM · Wayfair platform TPM · Akamai TPM · biotech computational platform TPM · cleared TPM
Senior Clinical Trial PM (Biotech)
$155,000–$225,000
Moderna Phase II/III · Vertex therapeutic-area · Biogen clinical · GCP regulatory + CRO coordination premium
Senior Cleared Defense PM
$165,000–$255,000
Raytheon Waltham missile + radar PM · MIT Lincoln Laboratory · Draper Lab · TS/SCI clearance premium
Senior IT Project Manager
$125,000–$185,000
Most common senior IC band · Fidelity + State Street + Mass General + Liberty Mutual IT modernization
Senior Construction / Infrastructure PM
$125,000–$195,000
Skanska MA · Suffolk Construction (Boston HQ) · Turner Construction · biotech lab construction premium
PM (Mid-Level, 4-7 yrs)
$95,000–$135,000
PMP-certified · functional PM at mid-cap MA firms · transition to senior PM band
Junior PM / Coordinator (0-3 yrs)
$72,000–$105,000
MIT Sloan + Harvard MBA + BU Questrom + Northeastern + WPI pipeline · pre-PMP certification phase
Senior Healthcare / Clinical PM
$135,000–$200,000
Mass General Brigham enterprise · Beth Israel Deaconess · Boston Children's · GCP + Epic premium
PMI Senior Program Manager (PgMP)
$175,000–$285,000
Multi-project PgMP credentialing · Kendall Square biotech senior leadership · Fidelity + State Street senior
Worth knowing: The Kendall Square biotech clinical trial program management ecosystem is the structural depth feature most national PM-career surveys understate. Moderna's mRNA platform produces sustained Phase II/III clinical trial program management demand across infectious disease, oncology, and rare disease pipelines; Vertex's cystic fibrosis franchise plus emerging therapies (alpha-1 antitrypsin, type 1 diabetes pipeline) drive parallel clinical PM work. Biogen's neuroscience pipeline + Takeda US HQ Cambridge add scale. Senior clinical trial PMs at Kendall Square biotech routinely clear $155-225K TC. MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington MA, FFRDC operated by MIT for the federal government, ~4,500 employees) operates one of the country's largest concentrations of cleared federal research PM work — air + missile defense, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance program management at TS/SCI plus polygraph clearance. Raytheon Technologies Waltham HQ (RTX, Fortune 100 defense, ~14K MA employees including substantial missile + radar engineering) drives cleared defense PM demand. PMI Mass Bay Chapter (~3K+ active members) plus the smaller PMI Worcester County Chapter anchor the credentialing community. The MA combined effective rate at $160K senior PM comp is 5% flat — but at $1.117M+ TC (achievable at senior biotech + defense senior leadership) Fair Share 4% surtax kicks in for 9% combined.
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