Of the 20 Master in Management programs we track in France, 11 publish a salary comparable across schools, and the median across those 11 is $108,000 (from $80,910 to $141,611). It is the Financial Times Masters in Management weighted salary — alumni pay reported roughly three years after graduation, adjusted for purchasing power and expressed in US dollars — not the salary a graduate starts on. For the starting number, the national data further down this page puts a first job at €40,000 (median first-job salary).
Salary by school
Salary is the FT weighted figure measured about three years after graduation (USD, PPP-adjusted) — not a starting salary. A school not in the FT table shows its own reported figure in its own currency, which is why it is named separately above. Click any school for its full salary and career-outcomes breakdown.
Where graduates work
| Industry | Typical share |
|---|---|
| Consulting | 13–38% |
| Technology | 11–15% |
| Financial Services | 22–28% |
| Business Development & Sales | 15–26% |
| Finance | 14–22% |
| Purchasing & Logistics | 6–8% |
| Consulting & Audit | 40% |
| Audit, Consulting & Financial Management | 39% |
Top recruiters across France
Deloitte · EY · Amazon · BNP Paribas · L'Oréal · Boston Consulting Group · LVMH · McKinsey & Company · PwC · Bain & Company · Goldman Sachs · Accenture · J.P. Morgan · KPMG · Société Générale
What the national data shows
France runs an annual national survey of grande école graduates — the CGE insertion survey. Its 2025 edition (204 schools, 214,021 graduates) is the honest benchmark behind any single school's placement report. These figures are for the management-school (MiM) cohort working in France.
CGE salaries are gross — ~€40k gross is roughly €31k net. INSEE puts the mean net salary across all private-sector cadres at €55,983 (2024), the ceiling the cadre track climbs toward.
Read the full breakdown: what a MiM pays in France →Working in France after your MiM
Master in Management graduates who studied in France can apply for the « recherche d'emploi/création d'entreprise » (RECE) residence card — the permit that replaced the old APS for job-seeking. It runs for 12 months and is not renewable, and unlike the earlier APS it lets you take up any professional activity without an hours cap while you search or prepare to launch a company.
If you have a job or a launched business by the end of the 12 months, you switch to the matching residence card — typically the « salarié » permit for employees or a « passeport talent » for higher-skilled roles.
Tuition vs. salary
Tuition across these programs runs from €21,000 to €58,900, against a median FT weighted salary of $108,000 at the 11 programmes that publish one.
Tuition is shown in EUR and salary in US dollars (the FT's reporting currency), and the salary is measured about three years after graduation while the tuition is paid up front — so treat this as a rough orientation, not a precise return-on-investment ratio. Living costs, scholarships and exchange rates all move the real number.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average MiM salary in France?
Can I stay and work in France after a Master in Management?
What share of MiM graduates in France find work after graduation?
Sources
- Carte de séjour « recherche d'emploi/création d'entreprise » — diplômé ↗ — Service-Public.fr — French government
- Job-seeker / business-creator residence permit ↗ — Campus France
- Enquête insertion des diplômés des Grandes écoles — Résultats 2025 ↗ — Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE)
- Salaire net annuel moyen — cadres du secteur privé (série 010752321) ↗ — INSEE
- Salary, employment and recruiter figures are drawn from each school's own reported outcomes — see the individual program pages linked above.