Marketing Managers in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$125,045
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$54,995
30.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$114,843
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$180,040
Kept after tax
$125,045
Worth in national money
$114,843
State rank
6
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Jersey pays marketing managers a middle wage of $180,040, ranking 6 of 48 states and sitting about 7.94% above the national middle.
- Within New Jersey this is well-paid work. Of 490 occupations with published figures in the state, marketing managers ranks 11 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $180,040 the take-home is $125,045; in national-average money that behaves like $114,843. The average comes to $198,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Jersey's median for marketing managers is $180,040, about 7.94% above the national figure and 6 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation New Jersey publishes a median for, marketing managers sits 11 of 490 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for marketing managers in New Jersey, on $180,040, is $125,045; deflated by the state's price level, $114,843. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $198,400 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Marketing Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $126,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $180,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $298,870 |
| This salary | $180,040 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Jersey | $125,045 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $134,323 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$23,385 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $166,465 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$33,247 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Jersey earn less than $180,040. The published range is $126,760 up to $298,870, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Jersey the take-home figure of $125,045, from $180,040, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 11 of 490 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $114,843, the adjusted value of that $180,040 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 11 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for marketing managers in New Jersey the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $126,760 to $298,870. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Jersey is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $125,045 from $180,040. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 11 of 490 locally.
- This $114,843 adjusted figure, worked from $180,040, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 11 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 11 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $198,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $126,760 and the top tenth $298,870 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $114,843 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New Jersey's own levy, $125,045 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New Jersey is $198,400. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($126,760) and the ninetieth ($298,870) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $114,843 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $125,045 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.