Pricing Manager

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Pricing Manager manages pricing and implements pricing strategies for company products or services. Analyzes company costs, industry pricing trends and prices at competitor companies. Develops strategies for pricing to improve sales.

Job Outlook

There were 167 Pricing Manager job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 5395 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Pricing Analyst industry, which includes the Pricing Manager career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2015:

Salary

Many new Pricing Manager jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $130,669.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $127,160.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Pricing Manager postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $116,347.

Education and Experience

Posted Pricing Manager jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education Level	Percentage
Associate's Degree	0%
Bachelor's Degree	79.11%
Master's Degree	43.73%
Doctoral Degree	6.73%
Other	6.15%

Posted Pricing Manager jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of Experience	Percentage
0 to 2 years	5.7%
3 to 5 years	47.31%
6 to 8 years	28.01%
9+ years	18.98%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Pricing Manager positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

Communication (59.67%)
Management (54.03%)
Sales (51.42%)
Leadership (47.99%)
Operations (32.92%)
Microsoft Excel (29.97%)
Problem Solving (23.97%)
Presentations (23.13%)
Detail Oriented (22.15%)
Influencing Skills (21.8%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

Finance (64.74%)
Pricing Strategies (54.73%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

Market Dynamics (7.44%)
Price Analysis (7.96%)
Transfer Pricing (9.23%)
Accounting (26.74%)
Auditing (14.17%)
Customer Relationship Management (7.29%)
Underwriting (3.51%)
Business Development (8.1%)
Python (Programming Language) (5.88%)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (12.42%)
Corporate Finance (7.65%)
Market Research (8.5%)
Financial Services (2.12%)
Economics (28.96%)
R (Programming Language) (3.59%)
Product Management (18.24%)
Financial Analysis (18.39%)
Data Analysis (25.39%)
Financial Modeling (14.19%)
International Taxation (2.87%)
Sales Operations (10.51%)
Marketing (36.92%)
Project Management (23.08%)
Market Trend (11.64%)
Business Strategies (8.75%)
New Product Development (11.14%)
Process Improvement (14.63%)
SQL (Programming Language) (16.6%)
Request For Proposal (9.5%)
Power BI (6.82%)
Statistics (12.76%)
SAS (Software) (3.64%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (10.97%)
Competitive Analysis (7.75%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Pricing Analytics (8.58%)

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.

Pricing Analytics (100%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Pricing Manager skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

Pricing Strategy Manager
Strategic Pricing Manager
Transfer Pricing Manager
Pricing Analytics Manager
Director of Pricing
Transfer Pricing Director
Pricing Actuarial Analyst
Product Pricing Manager
Graphics Supervisor

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Pricing Manager jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

Amazon (146)
Windstream (142)
Teradata Operations (131)
Iron Mountain (125)
Prime Therapeutics (125)
Deloitte (120)
Cardinal Health (116)
Elevance Health (114)
Wolters Kluwer (86)
Smx Corporation Limited (65)

North Carolina

Lowe's (11)
Honeywell International (8)
Elevance Health (6)
Disability Solutions (6)
Vaco (5)
Iron Mountain (4)
American Tire Distributors (4)
PepsiCo (4)
Deloitte (4)
Trane Technologies (3)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

Management, Marketing Analytics Master's Degrees

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.

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