What production supervisors are paid in 2026, and why there's no ladder
About a third of production supervisor postings in the US state pay. Of 3,602 postings collected in 2026 to August 31, 1,235 stated a figure, and their coverage-adjusted median is $77,500, up 2.6% from the same window in 2025. This page gives the quartiles, the disclosure rate and the method.
$77,500
National Median
About a third of production supervisor postings in the US this year state pay. Of the 3,602 postings collected between January 1 and August 31, 2026, 1,235 stated a figure, a 34.3 percent disclosure rate. Their median, corrected for which states disclose, is $77,500 a year. The unadjusted median of the same postings is $79,500.
This is base pay as posted, with bonuses and shift differentials excluded. Almost none of these postings state a level, so this page measures the role as a whole rather than a ladder by seniority. Posted pay is up 2.6 percent from the same window in 2025.
The figures: what production supervisor postings state
Two rows, because the second one is the one to quote. As posted is what the 1,235 disclosing postings say. Coverage-adjusted re-weights them so each state carries its share of all 3,602 collected postings rather than its share of the ones that disclosed. That correction moves the median down 2.5 percent, to $77,500, and narrows the range at both ends.
| Measure | As posted | Coverage-adjusted |
|---|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $70,500 | $69,840 |
| Median | $79,500 | $77,500 |
| 75th percentile | $90,000 | $86,860 |
Base pay, annualized, 1,235 US postings that stated pay, collected January 1 to August 31, 2026.
34.3% of production supervisor postings state pay
1,235 of the 3,602 collected postings carried a usable annual figure. 2,366 gave no pay information at all, and 1 quoted a figure that was not in US dollars.
In the thirteen states with pay-transparency laws in force, 53.9 percent of postings state pay against 33.8 percent everywhere else, and the median role pays about 10.1 percent more in those states. Re-weighting by state is what produces the coverage-adjusted column above; here it moves the median down 2.5 percent, from $79,500 to $77,500.
The minority of postings that give no number still say something. What a DOE listing actually means covers the phrasings employers use instead of a figure.
Posted pay is up 2.6% from a year ago
The 2025 comparison uses the same titles, the same country filter and the same calendar window, January 1 to early September, so a move like this is a measurement rather than a gap in the data. The 2025 median was $77,500 across 3,544 disclosing postings. The 2026 median is $79,500 across 1,235. That places the role in the balanced band on PayScope's market label.
Posting volume differs a lot between the two years, and that is a fact about collection, not about hiring: this pipeline's monthly volume swings by a factor of twenty, so this page makes no claim about how many production supervisor jobs exist. The medians are comparable, the counts are not.
How these figures were produced
The source is PayScope's own collection of US job postings, deduplicated by posting id and filtered to the United States, covering January 1 to August 31, 2026. 3,602 postings matched the role and 1,235 stated a usable annual pay figure. Every figure on this page is base pay as the employer wrote it, with bonuses, overtime and shift differentials all excluded.
Almost none of these postings state a level: only 59 of the 1,235 disclosing postings, 4.8 percent, name a rung at all, split 16 Entry, 15 Mid, 26 Senior and 2 Lead, all under the 30-posting floor PayScope uses for a publishable median. That is why this page reports the role median rather than a ladder.
Three posted titles map to this role:
- production supervisor
- manufacturing supervisor
- plant supervisor
The figures are regenerated monthly on this method, and August 31 is the cut-off for every number here. September postings exist in the corpus but that month's collection is too thin to sit beside the rest of the year.
Other roles are on the salary guide index.
Frequently asked questions
What is the median salary for a production supervisor in the US?
$77,500 a year, coverage-adjusted, from 1,235 US job postings that stated pay and were collected between January 1 and August 31, 2026. The unadjusted median of the same postings is $79,500. Half of them sit between $69,840 and $86,860 on a coverage-adjusted basis.
How many production supervisor job postings state pay?
34.3 percent. Of 3,602 US postings collected in 2026 through August 31, 1,235 carried a usable pay figure, 2,366 carried none, and 1 quoted a figure that was not in US dollars. Disclosure is higher in the thirteen states with pay-transparency laws in force, at 53.9 percent against 33.8 percent everywhere else.
Why doesn't this page show pay by level?
Because almost no posting states one. Only 59 of the 1,235 disclosing postings name a level at all, split across Entry, Mid, Senior and Lead, and every one of those groups falls under the 30-posting floor PayScope uses for a publishable median. The page reports the role as a whole instead.
Are these production supervisor figures base pay or total compensation?
Base pay as the employer posted it, annualized. Bonuses, overtime and shift differentials are excluded.
Has production supervisor pay gone up in 2026?
Yes, slightly. The median posted base is $79,500, against $77,500 for the same window of 2025, a 2.6 percent rise measured on the same titles and the same calendar window. That places the role in the balanced band on PayScope's market label.