Project Management Specialists salary in Raleigh, North Carolina

About 7,300 Project Management Specialists work in the Raleigh metro, making it one of the denser concentrations of this role in the Southeast. The 2024 median annual wage was $101,520, which runs about 2% above both the North Carolina median of $99,580 and the national median of $100,946. The gap is narrow by metro-vs-state standards, but Raleigh sits on the right side of it.

The bigger story is the spread. At the 10th percentile, Project Management Specialists in the metro earned $61,820. At the 90th, they earned $162,360. Top earners made roughly 2.6 times what those at the lower end did. That kind of range usually reflects real differences in seniority, industry, and whether the role touches a handful of high-stakes programs or manages routine operational work.

The mean wage of $105,920 came in about $4,400 above the median. A smaller group of higher-paid project managers pulled the average up, which is typical for metros with a mix of mid-market companies and larger tech or life-sciences employers.

For context, the national mean sits at $108,098, so Raleigh's mean runs a bit below the US average even as the median sits just above it. That pattern suggests the metro has a solid mid-tier of practitioners without as many outlier earners at the very top as some larger coastal metros.