Quality Control Systems Managers Career, Salary and Skills
Quality Control Systems Managers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $126,060 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 246,250. Wage data is published for 426 locations.
Occupation description
Plan, direct, or coordinate quality assurance programs. Formulate quality control policies and control quality of laboratory and production efforts.
O*NET code
11-3051.01
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$126,060
Hourly median
$60.61
Employment
246,250
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Control Analysis | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Speaking | 3.88 | 4.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.88 | 4.50 |
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 4.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.75 | 4.12 |
| Coordination | 3.75 | 3.88 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.75 | 4.12 |
Typical tasks
- Review and update standard operating procedures or quality assurance manuals.
- Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
- Review quality documentation necessary for regulatory submissions and inspections.
- Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and interpretation to production management or staff.
- Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standards.
- Oversee workers including supervisors, inspectors, or laboratory workers engaged in testing activities.
- Direct product testing activities throughout production cycles.
- Stop production if serious product defects are present.
Technology
- Abbott Informatics STARLIMS:LIMS
- Adobe Acrobat
- ASI DATAMYTE GageMetrics
- ASI DATAMYTE QDA
- ASIDATAMYTE DataMetrics
- Atlassian JIRA
- CAMA Software Quality Collaboration By Design QCBD
- CEBOS MQ1 software
- Computing Solutions LabSoft LIMS
- Core Informatics Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
- Database software
- Eko
- EtQ Reliance
- Extensible markup language XML
Quality Control Systems Managers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in CAMedian $132,620 · Employment 25,130
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in TXMedian $130,890 · Employment 21,200
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in MIMedian $120,660 · Employment 14,320
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in OHMedian $109,340 · Employment 14,290
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in ILMedian $127,270 · Employment 11,570
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in PAMedian $109,140 · Employment 10,200
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in NCMedian $125,940 · Employment 9,640
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in FLMedian $119,870 · Employment 9,480
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in INMedian $121,500 · Employment 9,400
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $128,540 · Employment 9,120
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $129,840 · Employment 8,850
- Quality Control Systems Managers Salary in New York, NYMedian $151,630 · Employment 7,220
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.