Space industry work
Programs & Business
Measured from 1,281 distinct posted rates, across 90 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 946 of the 2,269 listings open here post no pay at all.
Live programs & business roles
Updated 30 Oct 2026, 19:03 UTC
Corporate Communications Manager (opens the job details)
Virgin Galactic · Tustin, California, United States· 1d agoDetails
$81,650–$124,600/yr
Manager IV – Contracts (opens the job details)
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems · Broomfield, Colorado, United States· 5d agoDetails
$157,911–$268,449/yr
Manager, Change and Configuration Management (opens the job details)
AST SpaceMobile · Lanham, Maryland, United States· 1mo agoDetails
Communications Manager (opens the job details)
Relativity Space · Long Beach, California, United States· 2w agoDetails
$89,000–$133,000/yr
$175,000–$255,000/yr- $165,000–$240,000/yr
Internal Communications Manager (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA· 2w agoDetails
$115,000–$170,000/yr
$135,000–$170,000/yr
$133,000–$210,000/yr
Run the company and its missions: program and project management, scheduling and program control, business development and sales of launches, satellites and data, finance and accounting, contracts, legal and export control, people and recruiting, and communications.
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In short
Programs & Business. Run the company and its missions: program and project management, scheduling and program control, business development and sales of launches, satellites and data, finance and accounting, contracts, legal and export control, people and recruiting, and communications. The usual range is $117k–$254k/yr and the median $149k/yr, both taken from rates printed on postings that are live today. 79 employers hire for it, including Array Labs, Umbra, Amazon Leo.
Who hires for programs & business work
Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
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What our research measures about programs & business work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-29 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring1,155 open roles (14.2% of the space roles we read) at 47 employers, 385 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are9.3% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply76.2% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 23.8% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (13%) and SQL (12%).
- Degrees and experience7.1% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 20.5% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency53.2% of the postings state their pay, at a median $140,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level42 open roles are for someone starting out (3.6% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel28.8% of the postings ask for weekend work, 25.9% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.5% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (82.8% of them), about a security clearance (52.3% of them), your GPA (32.0% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (31.0% of them), your salary expectations (29.2% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (51.6% of them).
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