However, modern campaign managers, particularly at the presidential level, are mostly concerned with executing strategy, not setting it.
In the United States, increasingly, campaign management has been a speciality occupation.
The top-tier of managers will move throughout the country working on a different campaign each election cycle.
The challenges of building a successful operation from scratch in less than 2 years makes experienced professionals increasingly valuable.
The pay ranges for a campaign manager differ depending on the scale of the political race.