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Title: Customer Support Manager rate in the US | Deftridge
Summary: Customer Support Manager pay in the United States: median wage $40 an hour, typical part-time contractor rate $60. Free for professionals.

United States · **Updated November 3, 2026**

# Customer Support Manager hourly rate in United States

The market median wage for a Customer Support Manager in the United States is **$39.67 an hour**. A senior part-time contractor typically receives **$60 an hour** on Deftridge.

**$60/hr** typical contractor rate, senior

**$39.67/hr** median wage

**$29-52** middle half of wages

**$1,300** a month at 5 hours a week

## Customer Support Manager wage percentiles in United States

Employee wages for the role. The yellow row is the median.

| Percentile | Per hour | 5 h a week, per month | Full time, per year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10th | $20.77 | $450 | $43,200 |
| 25th | $28.76 | $620 | $59,800 |
| Median | $39.67 | $860 | $82,500 |
| 75th | $52.09 | $1,130 | $108,300 |
| 90th | $66.62 | $1,440 | $138,600 |

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025; aged to October 2026; about 630,980 people employed in the role. [How rates are built](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/).

## United States in numbers

What sets the United States apart for a Customer Support Manager, from the same sources as the table above.

- **$57.74** highest median wage, California

- **$23.12** lowest median wage, Indiana

- **630,980** people employed in the role

- **$72.75** median wage in the San Jose metro area, the highest in the country

- **$35** country floor: no United States rate is published below it

- Self-employment tax is 15.3%: 12.4% Social Security plus 2.9% Medicare; the employer-equivalent half is deductible in working out adjusted gross income. [Source](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/self-employment-tax-social-security-and-medicare-taxes)

- For 2026 the first $184,500 of combined wages, tips and net self-employment earnings is subject to the Social Security part. [Source](https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/self-employment-tax-social-security-and-medicare-taxes)

## What contractors receive

The Deftridge rate for a Customer Support Manager in the United States by level and by format. The company adds 15% on top; you keep all of the rate shown.

| Level | Per hour | Per month at 5 h/week |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Senior | $60 | $1,300 |
| Manager | $70 | $1,520 |
| Director | $85 | $1,840 |

- Regular role **$60**

- One-off task **$65**

- Task bundle **$60**

## Customer Support Manager pay by region in United States

Typical contractor rate for a senior Customer Support Manager, highest first; 9 of 51 places shown.

| Place | Median wage | Contractor rate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| California | $57.74 | $85 |
| District of Columbia | $51.54 | $75 |
| Delaware | $51.06 | $75 |
| Massachusetts | $49.10 | $70 |
| New York | $48.72 | $70 |
| Colorado | $47.85 | $70 |
| Washington | $47.41 | $70 |
| Virginia | $46.81 | $70 |
| New Jersey | $44.65 | $65 |

## Highest-paying metro areas

Median employee wage for the role in the metro area (BLS OEWS).

- [San Jose $72.75/hr median wage · range $57-96](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [San Francisco $68.66/hr median wage · range $54-90](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Lewiston $56.98/hr median wage · range $35-57](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/maine/)

- [San Diego $56.48/hr median wage · range $44-72](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Los Angeles $55.92/hr median wage · range $41-71](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Santa Cruz $55.03/hr median wage · range $39-71](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Santa Maria $54.97/hr median wage · range $40-70](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Sacramento $54.28/hr median wage · range $40-68](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Oxnard $52.86/hr median wage · range $42-68](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

- [Modesto $52.76/hr median wage · range $40-62](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/california/)

## Questions about pay, fees and privacy

The same rules apply to every task, so they live on two pages: [Pricing](https://deftridge.com/pricing/) explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; [How it works](https://deftridge.com/how-it-works/) covers matching, what a company sees and side work next to a job.

[Customer Support Manager rates in every country](https://deftridge.com/rates/customer-support-manager/) · [Customer Support Manager jobs in United States](https://deftridge.com/jobs/customer-support-manager/united-states/) · [Methodology](https://deftridge.com/rates/methodology/)
