Account Manager Salary in New York 2026,
$92,190 Median | BLS Data by City

The published New York figure is $92,190 a year, or $44.32 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $45,750 at the 10th percentile to $174,820 at the 90th and quartiles at $61,340 and $133,580. That is 31.7% above the national median of $69,990. The row is SOC 41-3091, Sales Representatives of Services, which is designed around new-business selling and is broader than the account manager title.

New York-Newark-Jersey City at $93,750, then Buffalo-Cheektowaga $73,070, Kingston $71,220, Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh $70,310 and Albany-Schenectady-Troy $68,050. The four upstate metros sit close to the national median of $69,990. Account management follows the accounts, and the large services buyers are downstate.

No. There is no account management occupation code, so the work is counted on SOC 41-3091 alongside new-business sales representatives for services. That matters because the two roles are compensated differently: account management is usually more base-weighted, while new-business selling carries a larger variable component. The very wide band on this row — $45,750 to $174,820 — is largely produced by commission variance that a retention role experiences less of.

No. New York licenses neither account management nor general commercial sales, and the State Education Department's Office of the Professions has no role here. Two adjacent fields are regulated and excluded from this occupation code: insurance account work requires a producer licence from the Department of Financial Services, and securities work requires FINRA registration through a broker-dealer. If your accounts are insurance or securities accounts, this page's figures do not describe your market.

The published data cannot separate them — both sit on SOC 41-3091 with the same $92,190 median. What can be said structurally is that account management packages are typically more base-weighted and less variable, which compresses the individual's year-to-year range relative to a hunting role even where the expected value is similar. In practice that means an account manager should treat the $61,340-to-$133,580 interquartile range as a wide market description rather than as a prediction of their own variance.

Because it changes what the percentiles mean. On a commission row, the distance between the 10th percentile and the 90th is largely a distribution of quota attainment: some people missed badly, some beat it. Account management does not work that way — renewal and expansion targets are steadier, the base is a larger share of the package, and the tails are thinner. So the same numbers describe a different underlying process depending on which job on the row you hold. An account manager who reads $174,820 as an achievable stretch year is misreading a figure that mostly describes enterprise new-business closers, and one who reads $45,750 as a realistic downside is misreading a figure that mostly describes under-attainment in a hunting role.

Account size and portfolio value. The step from the $92,190 median to the $133,580 seventy-fifth percentile is a step from a book of mid-market accounts to a small number of large, complex ones with multi-stakeholder relationships and meaningful renewal risk. That is why the downstate concentration is so sharp: New York-Newark-Jersey City at $93,750 against Albany-Schenectady-Troy at $68,050 is a statement about where the large services buyers are, not about local wage levels. Sector matters too — technology, professional services and logistics all price retention differently.

By separating base from variable and comparing the base against the lower half of the band rather than the whole of it. Because OEWS reports realised annual earnings, a heavily base-weighted account management package that pays $92,190 in a normal year is a genuinely different proposition from a sales package with the same expected value and much wider dispersion. The other check worth running is portfolio: an offer's account list, renewal rates and expansion history tell a candidate more about where they will land in the $61,340-to-$133,580 range than any stated target does.