Why Kenyan product managers now out-earn engineers in the battle for tech talent

Theexchange_africa | 19-03-2026 11:39pm |

For the first time, the total monthly cost of employing a tech product manager in Nairobi ($2,425) has overtaken that of a senior software engineer ($1,900), marking a 28% premium for product strategy over pure engineering execution in Kenya’s tech outsourcing market. Global tech retrenchment and new statutory costs (SHIF, Housing Levy) have pushed employers

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