BIM Manager Salary 2026,
What BIM Managers Actually Earn

How much do bim managers make in 2026?

BIM managers are pooled into the BLS architectural and civil drafters series, where OEWS May 2025 reports a national median of $66,150 a year ($31.80 an hour) for SOC 17-3011, a bottom 10% near $46,260 and a top 10% at $99,710 across 103,700 workers. That pooling needs stating clearly: BIM management is a technology leadership role and the code it lands in is a production drafting occupation, so the published band understates it. BIM managers commonly sit at and above the top of this range, particularly at large practices and contractors. The role owns how a practice produces work: model standards and templates, content and family libraries, software selection and deployment, execution plans agreed with clients and consultants, clash detection and coordination workflows, data structures for handover, and training for everyone who touches a model. At contractors it extends into construction sequencing, prefabrication support and as-built data. It is a hybrid job — part technologist, part process manager, part trainer — and the people who do it well are drawn from technical staff who understood both the software and the building. Employment across the pooled series is projected to grow 4.1% through 2034 with roughly 10,000 openings a year. → Full bim manager career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $66,150 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 17-3011, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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