Fundraising Managers salary

SOC 11-2033 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$125,470

per year, nationally

Middle half

$95,970–$169,990

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

38,810

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+4.2%

3,600 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$75,130$222,350

10th: $75,130
25th: $95,970
Median: $125,470
75th: $169,990
90th: $222,350

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: 5 years or more
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where fundraising managers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	New York	$169,510	107.9	4,080	1.69×
2	New Hampshire	$157,080	104.2	270	1.56×
3	Rhode Island	$155,970	102.3	220	1.73×
4	Massachusetts	$151,740	105.8	2,260	2.49×
5	Virginia	$143,730	101.1	880	0.85×
6	District of Columbia	$141,720	109.9	800	4.59×
7	New Jersey	$140,500	108.8	750	0.70×
8	Washington	$137,010	107.0	1,050	1.19×
9	California	$135,870	110.7	5,430	1.20×
10	Delaware	$131,750	99.8	120	0.99×
11	Maryland	$130,750	105.0	810	1.17×
12	Colorado	$130,010	103.1	600	0.84×
13	Vermont	$129,170	98.0	180	2.35×
14	Minnesota	$126,920	98.6	680	0.93×
15	North Carolina	$125,870	94.3	1,030	0.83×
16	Kentucky	$124,770	90.2	210	0.42×
17	Wisconsin	$123,090	94.1	400	0.55×
18	Connecticut	$122,540	103.6	900	2.14×
19	Louisiana	$122,150	88.2	50	0.11×
20	Oklahoma	$122,100	87.8	220	0.51×
21	North Dakota	$121,750	89.0	30	0.32×
22	Kansas	$121,210	90.1	160	0.45×
23	Arizona	$116,470	100.7	530	0.65×
24	Maine	$116,470	97.0	220	1.41×
25	Michigan	$113,360	96.2	880	0.80×
26	Georgia	$113,050	96.3	680	0.56×
27	Indiana	$112,890	93.3	440	0.55×
28	Pennsylvania	$111,280	97.6	1,950	1.29×
29	Missouri	$111,120	90.8	—	—
30	Tennessee	$107,760	91.9	300	0.36×
31	Nevada	$106,420	100.0	150	0.40×
32	Illinois	$106,290	100.0	2,860	1.88×
33	Oregon	$103,870	103.4	1,160	2.37×
34	South Carolina	$103,240	93.7	220	0.39×
35	Alaska	$103,090	102.4	110	1.41×
36	New Mexico	$101,680	92.2	70	0.30×
37	Ohio	$101,470	92.8	1,630	1.17×
38	Iowa	$98,700	87.8	370	0.94×
39	Florida	$97,240	103.4	1,320	0.53×
40	Nebraska	$97,230	90.1	400	1.57×
41	Texas	$96,520	97.1	2,560	0.73×
42	Utah	$95,190	98.9	130	0.31×
43	Hawaii	$93,910	110.0	240	1.56×
44	Idaho	$87,990	95.5	70	0.32×
45	Alabama	$83,700	88.8	210	0.39×
46	Mississippi	$82,620	87.0	70	0.24×
47	West Virginia	$74,400	89.5	100	0.56×
48	Arkansas	$71,110	86.9	150	0.46×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where fundraising managers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for fundraising managers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$179,130	109.9	30	1.24×
2	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$170,780	112.6	3,720	1.57×
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$164,330	110.4	460	1.63×
4	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$161,500	108.3	1,720	2.55×
5	Winston-Salem, NC	$158,460	92.0	70	1.01×
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$157,750	115.6	1,030	1.74×
7	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$153,940	108.8	80	1.57×
8	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$151,530	108.6	50	1.50×
9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$151,490	111.1	800	1.53×
10	Rochester, NY	$147,680	97.0	170	1.36×
11	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$145,540	103.2	100	1.67×
12	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$144,590	101.8	270	1.52×
13	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$143,780	101.1	50	1.22×
14	Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA	$143,730	92.7	70	3.63×
15	Ann Arbor, MI	$141,800	100.9	180	3.37×
16	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$141,720	108.9	1,470	1.88×
17	Richmond, VA	$140,260	97.9	110	0.67×
18	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$140,090	92.9	60	0.80×
19	Salinas, CA	$139,240	109.0	60	1.21×
20	New Haven, CT	$138,710	104.6	230	3.26×
21	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$138,650	107.8	60	1.15×
22	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$138,170	106.7	250	0.92×
23	Amherst Town-Northampton, MA	$136,890	100.2	120	7.17×
24	Pittsfield, MA	$136,830	95.1	40	2.91×
25	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$134,740	111.9	470	1.22×
26	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$134,540	109.4	60	0.95×
27	Worcester, MA	$134,020	102.5	170	1.95×
28	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$133,810	105.8	360	0.89×
29	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$133,560	100.9	50	1.52×
30	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$133,030	99.6	160	1.39×
31	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$132,650	105.1	50	0.70×
32	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$132,070	106.4	240	0.55×
33	Redding, CA	$131,400	100.7	30	1.88×
34	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$130,400	102.4	40	0.44×
35	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$130,340	100.9	40	0.52×
36	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$130,160	97.9	120	0.65×
37	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$130,010	96.3	130	0.46×
38	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$129,870	98.2	150	0.82×
39	Boulder, CO	$129,010	105.2	40	0.80×
40	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$128,810	97.6	220	2.56×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where fundraising managers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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