Report on Salary Surveys

The average salary for manufacturing management is $105,581, according to the 2008 Salary Survey from IndustryWeek, a trade publication. This means that the annual salary of manufacturing managers in the United States actually declined slightly, by 0.9 percent, from $106,588 in 2007. Despite this fact, the same survey found that the percentage of managers who are "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with manufacturing as a career path actually increased from 79 percent to 83 percent. Perhaps they are happy to simply be holding their job, since despite the number of people employed in manufacturing continuing to decline, output and overall productivity are improving every year.