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Job outlook for video production managers in the United States
Are video production manager jobs in demand?
Video production manager job and salary trends over time
Video production manager jobs over time
Video production manager job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 194 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 167 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 181 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 166 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 164 | 0.00% |
Average video production manager salary over time
Video production manager salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $65,618 | $31.55 | +2.7% |
| 2024 | $63,917 | $30.73 | +3.8% |
| 2023 | $61,564 | $29.60 | +0.1% |
| 2022 | $61,512 | $29.57 | +0.9% |
| 2021 | $60,937 | $29.30 | +3.7% |
Video production manager jobs by state
Most common states for video production managers
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wisconsin | 5,795,483 | 800 | 14% |
| 2 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 758 | 14% |
| 3 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 96 | 14% |
| 4 | Indiana | 6,666,818 | 841 | 13% |
| 5 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 155 | 12% |
| 6 | Vermont | 623,657 | 76 | 12% |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,658,609 | 1,243 | 11% |
| 8 | Kentucky | 4,454,189 | 491 | 11% |
| 9 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 311 | 10% |
| 10 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 296 | 10% |
| 11 | Maine | 1,335,907 | 136 | 10% |
| 12 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 1,176 | 9% |
| 13 | Missouri | 6,113,532 | 542 | 9% |
| 14 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 381 | 9% |
| 15 | Pennsylvania | 12,805,537 | 1,038 | 8% |
| 16 | Michigan | 9,962,311 | 834 | 8% |
| 17 | Georgia | 10,429,379 | 823 | 8% |
| 18 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 597 | 8% |
| 19 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 460 | 8% |
| 20 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 140 | 8% |
Most common cities for video production managers
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills | 2 | 6% | $80,132 |
| 2 | Boca Raton | 1 | 1% | $54,315 |
| 3 | Los Angeles | 1 | 0% | $80,075 |
| 4 | Riverside | 1 | 0% | $79,158 |
Video Production Manager job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of video production manager experts
Olympic College
Susquehanna University
Webster University
Columbia College Chicago
Drexel University
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Radio Television Digital News Association
Florida State University
University of North Texas
Amy Hesketh
Full Time FacultyOlympic College
Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) Division
What soft skills should all Video Production Managers possess?
Amy Hesketh: -Collaboration.
-Teamwork.
-Project management.
-Crew management.
-Professionalism.
What hard/technical skills are most important for Video Production Managers?
Amy Hesketh: -Film production.
-Videography.
-Video editing.
-Video streaming.
-Budgeting.
-Scheduling.
What skills will help Video Production Managers earn the most?
Amy Hesketh: -Certification in DaVinci Resolve.
-Motion graphics.
-Ability to create a finished, professional video from script to screen.
Craig Stark Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communications, Department Head of CommunicationsSusquehanna University
Communications Department
What general advice would you give to a Video Production Manager?
Craig Stark Ph.D.: Be flexible and willing to change goals and perspectives. The industry is constantly changing and evolving but fortunately you can do anything with a communications degree. Use that flexibility to your advantage and do the best you can to prepare for any industrial, professional, and personal changes in your life.
Are there any particularly good places in the United States for Video Production Managers to find work opportunities?
Lara Teeter: Throw a rock over your shoulder and hit 20 in one throw! Literally, everywhere you turn, if you are hungry and smart, there is a place to find work. I like to use "Everything was Possible - the birth of the musical FOLLIES" by Ted Chapin as an example. He was in a position to fetch coffee for Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim, and Michael Bennett. After so many years, he was chosen by the Rodgers and Hammerstein families to run their business. He's also the co-founder of ENCORES. There are many "good places" to find work. There are also some "not so good" places to work. A young actor's journey must encounter both so that as they mature in the business, they can, hopefully, begin to choose what places/directors/organizations that they prefer to work with as well as those they don't. Until that day, however, a job is a job. The MUNY, The Glimmerglass Opera, Goodspeed, Pittsburg Civic Light Opera, Wichita Summer Musicals, Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City (these last two is where I got my start in the 1970s!), Barrington Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Alabama Shakespeare, Seattle Reparatory Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, TX, Broadway Sacramento (formally California Musical Theatre)....the list goes on and on!
What are the biggest trends we'll see in the Video Production Manager job market given the pandemic?
Duncan MacKenzie: The fine arts' job market is always aggressively entrepreneurial and requires our practitioners to establish their voice and space. With many of our more traditional paths squeezed or closed, we see an increased enthusiasm for online venues and the kinds of work that can support them. After the pandemic, we expect to see a return to the materially based practices and those with performative and social aspects, as the audience will be looking for less mediated experiences.
Are there any particularly good places in the United States for Video Production Managers to find work opportunities?
Duncan MacKenzie: Artists can find relevance anywhere they want to work, but often, they must build the audience for their creative output. It is more comfortable in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, as they have pre-existing channels and communities for art-making and viewing. Still, those cities can be significantly more expensive to live in.
What are the biggest trends we'll see in the Video Production Manager job market given the pandemic?
Michael Wagner: We primarily serve the traditional digital media industries (game design, animation, visual effects, VR/AR, etc.). In our fields, the pandemic's most significant trend is the rapid development of solutions for virtualizing digital media production systems. Companies have started to move much of their production into cloud-based development environments that allow developers to work in geographically dispersed teams.
How do you envision technology impacting Video Production Managers in the next 5 years?
David Carren: The most significant impact will be in the nature and expansion of digital delivery systems for narrative film and television and live theatre.
Are there any particularly good places in the United States for Video Production Managers to find work opportunities?
Dan Shelley: There are entry-level, mid-level and senior-level positions open across the country. Companies that operate local newsrooms around the U.S. are placing a great emphasis on improving the diversity of their workplaces, particularly in newsroom management positions. There are significant opportunities for BIPOC broadcast and digital journalists to get onto the management track by taking producer and other mid-level supervisory positions.
What general advice would you give to a Video Production Manager?
Michael Neal Ph.D.: The advice can be tricky, especially since our graduates go into a number of fields. My hope for them is that they continue to build upon what they learned in our program and apply it to new situations and contexts outside of school. I often tell students that editing, writing, and media aren't skills you master and then apply universally across contexts. Instead, we encourage students to keep growing and stretching themselves, since they will most likely face new genres, audiences, and contexts that they didn't see in college. Therefore, we teach them to be flexible, to be close readers, and analyze each rhetorical situation to determine how to best communicate within that context. Good writing isn't one-size-fits-all. Instead, it's a complex, negotiated relationship between writers, texts, contexts, audiences, media, modalities, etc.
How would you rate the starting salaries for Video Production Managers, as well as the prospects for salary advancement?
Michael Neal Ph.D.: You can get specific, detailed, current information from the career center at FSU, but when I checked a little over a year ago, Editing, Writing, and Media students do well in the job market, some of the best numbers in the college. Our graduates go into many writing- and communication-related fields. A number of them enter law school each year. The salaries for entry-level positions coming out of the humanities tend to be slightly lower than other fields, such as business, but over the course of their careers, they make up for that slightly lower start. In addition to salaries, I also focus on the quality of work-life and professional satisfaction. Students with degrees in Editing, Writing, and Media have the ability to enter many different fields and apply the soft skills they've learned (e.g., critical thinking, project management, communication, design) in various contexts. I keep in touch with many graduates, and I'm continually impressed by the range and quality of their professional opportunities.
What technology do you think will become more important and prevalent for Video Production Managers in the next 3-5 years?
Johnathan Paul: We've slowly seen more and more companies in film, television, and video game development move a portion of their business to online and remote for the past ten years. However, with the global pandemic, we've seen those new models get pushed to the forefront in a concise amount of time. With that said, my classes have been integrating communication and project management apps into the classroom workflow and the core creative tools I use. So apps such as Zoom, Slack, Notion, Frame.io, Evercast, etc. are heavily used in my class, as students will now need to have a working knowledge of some or all of these applications once they move into the industry.