Project Management Specialists salary in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

The figures

The median Project Management Specialists in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area earns $130,380 a year ($62.68 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Project Management Specialists in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA earn between $97,410 and $168,460 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $78,780 or less and the top 10 percent earn $209,220 or more. BLS estimates 26,910 Project Management Specialists jobs in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area — 12.899 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.88 (well above the national concentration). That is 2.5% of all Project Management Specialists employment in the United States (1,066,670 jobs nationally). By employment, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is the #6 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Project Management Specialists. In aggregate, Project Management Specialists in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA earn about $3.59 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $101,800.06 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Project Management Specialists is about $2.74 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 3.3% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA stands #2 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Project Management Specialists. By employment, Project Management Specialists is the #12 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Placed against the national distribution for Project Management Specialists, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median of $130,380 falls between the national median ($102,320) and the national 75th percentile ($133,100). Across all occupations, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median is $72,610 a year — Project Management Specialists pay is 79.6% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Project Management Specialists in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA earn 2.7 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($209,220 against $78,780). The middle half spans $71,050 — from $97,410 to $168,460. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($100.59) is 2.66 times the 10th ($37.88). In the upper half of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $168,460 takes home $125,431.30 and the 90th percentile wage of $209,220 takes home $153,054.54 — $27,623.24 more net for $40,760 more gross. Against the median take-home of $99,624.60, the top decile keeps 1.54 times as much. The mean wage of $133,590 sits 2.5% above the median: higher-paid Project Management Specialists pull the average up in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, Project Management Specialists ranks #3 by median pay. In the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Project Management Specialists sits between General and Operations Managers at $146,030 and Registered Nurses at $128,260. Project Management Specialists accounts for 1.3% of all employment in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,846 Project Management Specialists; Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA employs 1.2 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Washington

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Washington; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $99,624.60 of the $130,380 gross is kept ($3,831.72 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 23.59%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 19.02% at the 10th percentile, 21.17% at the 25th percentile, 25.54% at the 75th percentile, 26.85% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $48,638.26 on a gross rise of $71,050.

The same engine at the other published points of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $63,794.90 a year at the 10th percentile to $153,054.54 at the 90th — a spread of $89,259.64 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median wage of $72,610 takes home $59,489.88 a year ($2,288.07 per paycheck, deduction rate 18.07%). The Project Management Specialists median take-home of $99,624.60 sits $40,134.72 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $130,380 in Washington

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Project Management Specialists earns $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour). The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median of $130,380 is $28,060 (27.4%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $133,590 a year in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA against $110,740 nationally, a gap of $22,850 (20.6%).

Set against the whole local market, the Project Management Specialists 90th percentile of $209,220 is 125% of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($167,440), and its 10th percentile of $78,780 is 186% of the area-wide 10th ($42,280).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.