Project Manager Salary in Georgia 2026,
$102,140 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Georgia figure is $102,140 a year, or $49.11 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $58,290 at the 10th percentile to $163,320 at the 90th. That is level with the national median of $102,320. Read it against the row: SOC 13-1082 covers project management specialists generally, including coordinators and analysts, so the median sits below what an experienced certified project manager in Georgia would typically command.

Warner Robins, at $116,980, well ahead of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell $103,400, Augusta-Richmond County $101,280, Savannah $98,930 and Albany $98,850. It is a defence-logistics effect: Robins Air Force Base and its contractor base run large sustainment programmes staffed by cleared project personnel, and government-contract project work carries rates that the local private economy would not otherwise sustain.

No. Georgia licenses no project managers, and the Secretary of State's Professional Licensing Boards Division has no category for the work. The gates are private and employer-set: PMP or CAPM from the Project Management Institute, PRINCE2, a scrum or SAFe credential for software delivery, and — for the defence and federal work that pays best in this state — a security clearance, which is a federal determination rather than a Georgia one.

Industry explains more of it. A PMP will reliably move a candidate through a résumé screen and is close to mandatory above the $102,140 median, but the difference between a $98,850 Albany posting and a $116,980 Warner Robins one is sector, not credential. Georgia's highest-paying project work concentrates in federal sustainment, payments and fintech, and large capital and logistics programmes; the same certification in a smaller-market administrative role sits nearer the $77,470 twenty-fifth percentile.

It removes bracket risk from bonuses. Georgia taxes all individual income at one flat rate — 5.49% under the 2024 schedule, 5.39% for 2026 — with no local income tax anywhere in the state, so a completion bonus or an annual incentive is taxed at the same state rate as base salary. Compensation packages weighted toward variable pay therefore compare cleanly across Georgia employers, and the whole of the roughly thirteen-thousand-dollar gap between the Warner Robins and Atlanta metro medians carries through to net.

Project management specialists: people who coordinate, budget and track projects, whatever they are called on an org chart. That includes the junior coordinator producing a weekly status deck and the programme manager running a nine-figure sustainment contract, and in Georgia it spans logistics, payments, film production, healthcare systems and federal contracting. The $58,290 tenth percentile and the $163,320 ninetieth are both genuine observations from that pool. The practical consequence is that quoting the $102,140 median in a negotiation for a senior role concedes the argument before it starts.

Because Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell itself publishes only $103,400 — essentially the national figure. Atlanta is a headquarters city with a large corporate and logistics base, but it is not a technology-compensation market in the way Seattle or the Bay Area are, and project management pay tracks the local wage structure of the industries employing it. Georgia's location quotient of 0.86 says the same thing from the employment side: the state has slightly less of this occupation than its size implies, spread across sectors that pay national-average rates for it.

Three places. Federal and defence programme management, concentrated at Warner Robins and Augusta-Richmond County, where clearance requirements shrink the candidate pool. Large capital and infrastructure programmes tied to the port and freight network around Savannah and Atlanta. And senior delivery leadership inside Atlanta's payments, fintech and healthcare IT employers, where the role is a director of a delivery organisation rather than a manager of projects. Reaching the $163,320 ninetieth percentile in Georgia generally means being in one of those three, not being better certified in a fourth.