2,000+ Product & Project Management Jobs in Chicago, IL

Observed pay is solid but varies by sub-role. BLS puts Chicago project management specialists at a $104,640 median annual wage with 19,130 local workers, while Illinois new openings across the broader management, product & project family carried a mean offered salary of about $103,820 in July 2026 (n=5,878). Proxy and self-reported sources point to a higher ceiling for product work: local postings across the broader category center on about $110k to $150k, and product-manager estimates in Chicago run around $155,100 median with a $110K to $209K range.

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Advertised pay

Across the 1,690 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $85,000 at the 25th percentile, $116,902 at the median and $150,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 7, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Chicago still offers real opportunity in this category, with more than 1,700 recent postings spread across more than 900 companies rather than one dominant hirer. But it is not an easy market: metro unemployment was 5.3% in June 2026, the unemployment level was up 10.7583% year over year, and metro employment was down -2.5739% year over year. Pay remains attractive—BLS puts local project management specialist median pay at $104,640, and current posted ranges across the broader category center on about $110k to $150k—but most openings skew mid to senior and only about 5% are entry level.

Best positioned: Experienced project, program, or product leaders who can show budget, risk, stakeholder, and delivery ownership in enterprise or regulated environments have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming Chicago is mainly a remote consumer-tech PM market; the current mix is much more enterprise, infrastructure, utility, and on-site than that.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 2,048 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. AbbVie Inc.: 36 open roles
2. Exelon: 24 open roles
3. Walgreens Co.: 22 open roles
4. ARCO/Murray: 19 open roles
5. WCIECA: 19 open roles
6. Thearcoway: 18 open roles
7. Publicis Groupe: 12 open roles
8. Power Home Remodeling Group: 11 open roles
9. ARCO / Murray Construction Company: 10 open roles
10. DHL Group: 10 open roles

Where the openings are

• Chicago: 1,002
• Downers Grove: 55
• Schaumburg: 41
• North Chicago: 37
• Oak Brook: 36
• Oakbrook Terrace: 36
• Aurora: 31
• Lisle: 25

Work arrangement

on-site 1,320 (66%), hybrid 587 (29%), remote 104 (5%)

Where the demand is

The biggest pool of opportunity is not pure consumer-tech product management. In the local sample, about 45% of postings sat in construction-adjacent organizations, with financial services, energy, technology, and healthcare each around 10%. That lines up with active employer names such as Burns & McDonnell, Jacobs Engineering Group, Exelon, ComEd, Enercon, Fehr Graham, Capital One Group, and AbbVie Inc. This means Chicago rewards candidates who can run complex cross-functional work in regulated, asset-heavy, or enterprise settings—budgets, schedules, vendors, stakeholders, and risk—not just roadmap language. There is still a startup and software-product lane: Y Combinator startup listings show Chicago product-manager hiring, and recently funded local startups in FinTech, HealthTech, and B2B SaaS were reported to be scaling in July 2026.

• Infrastructure, utilities, and consulting program offices (high): This is the clearest concentration of demand, supported by the local industry mix and by active employers such as Burns & McDonnell, Jacobs Engineering Group, Exelon, ComEd, Enercon, and Fehr Graham.
• Financial services and healthcare transformation teams (moderate): These sectors each account for about 10% of the local posting mix, and named employers include Capital One Group and AbbVie Inc., making them good targets for candidates with compliance, stakeholder, and change-delivery depth.
• Startup and software product roles (moderate): The lane exists, with Y Combinator startup product-manager openings and funded local startups scaling, but it is smaller than many candidates assume and competes with a much broader experienced PM talent pool.

Where to focus: Prioritize enterprise and regulated-environment roles where you can prove budget, risk, vendor, and stakeholder control; treat startup product searches as a second lane unless you already have strong product evidence.

Roles worth searching next

• Business analyst / business operations analyst: Project management specialists sit in the broader business and financial occupations group, and Chicago postings emphasize stakeholder, budget, risk, and scheduling skills that transfer well into analyst-led transformation work.
• Procurement or purchasing manager: Budgeting, vendor coordination, and risk control transfer well, especially in a market with heavy infrastructure, energy, and enterprise spend.
• Healthcare operations manager: Healthcare represents about 10% of the local posting mix, so candidates with delivery experience plus healthcare domain knowledge can move into service-line or operations leadership.
• Marketing operations manager: The same communication, cross-functional coordination, AI workflow, and data-literacy strengths that matter in product and project work also map well to marketing operations and launch execution.

What postings ask for

• Project management execution (table_stakes | immediate): Project management is the most requested hard skill locally at about 45% of postings, and it remains the core function BLS ties to the occupation. Who: Everyone in this category, especially candidates coming from adjacent operations or analyst roles.
• Risk management (differentiator | immediate): Risk management appears in about 15% of local postings, which matters because much of Chicago's opportunity is in enterprise, infrastructure, and regulated work where execution risk is visible and costly. Who: Mid-career project and program managers, chiefs of staff, and switchers from regulated industries.
• Stakeholder management and communication (differentiator | immediate): Stakeholder management shows up in about 15% of local postings, and BLS also flags communication as a key skill for project management specialists. Who: Candidates targeting cross-functional enterprise roles rather than single-team execution jobs.
• Budget management and scheduling (table_stakes | immediate): Budget management appears in about 15% of local postings and scheduling in about 10%, which is a strong signal that employers want operators who can control scope, cost, and timing—not just run ceremonies. Who: Project and program managers moving into larger or more regulated initiatives.
• PMP (differentiator | immediate): PMP is the most commonly required certification in local postings, appearing in about 10% of ads that specify a credential, so it helps experienced candidates clear enterprise filters. Who: Experienced project and program managers aiming at utilities, consulting, infrastructure, or healthcare transformation work.
• Data literacy and AI-informed analysis (premium | near-term): Data literacy is becoming more important for product managers in 2026, and AI is shifting the role toward more data-backed decision-making. Who: Product managers, TPMs, chiefs of staff, and project leaders who want to move upmarket.

Questions about this market

What do Management, Product & Project roles pay in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?

Observed pay is solid but varies by sub-role. BLS puts Chicago project management specialists at a $104,640 median annual wage with 19,130 local workers, while Illinois new openings across the broader management, product & project family carried a mean offered salary of about $103,820 in July 2026 (n=5,878). Proxy and self-reported sources point to a higher ceiling for product work: local postings across the broader category center on about $110k to $150k, and product-manager estimates in Chicago run around $155,100 median with a $110K to $209K range. Chicago generally pays above the U.S. project-management median of $100,750, but the city's cost-of-living index is 118.3, or 18.3% above the national baseline, so six-figure offers do not stretch as far as the headline suggests.

Where is demand for Management, Product & Project roles in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN concentrated?

The biggest pool of opportunity is not pure consumer-tech product management. In the local sample, about 45% of postings sat in construction-adjacent organizations, with financial services, energy, technology, and healthcare each around 10%. That lines up with active employer names such as Burns & McDonnell, Jacobs Engineering Group, Exelon, ComEd, Enercon, Fehr Graham, Capital One Group, and AbbVie Inc. This means Chicago rewards candidates who can run complex cross-functional work in regulated, asset-heavy, or enterprise settings—budgets, schedules, vendors, stakeholders, and risk—not just roadmap language. There is still a startup and software-product lane: Y Combinator startup listings show Chicago product-manager hiring, and recently funded local startups in FinTech, HealthTech, and B2B SaaS were reported to be scaling in July 2026.

Which employers are hiring the most Management, Product & Project talent in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Capital One Group (20 postings), Burns & McDonnell (20 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (15 postings), Exelon (15 postings), ComEd (15 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Management, Product & Project roles in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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