Amusement and Recreation Attendants Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($21,940) to the 90th ($39,940). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 371,590 Amusement and Recreation Attendants jobs in May 2024, which is 0.24% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Hawaii, where the location quotient is 2.83, meaning the occupation holds 2.83 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 51,970 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 33.8% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $18,000 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($39,940) is 1.8 times the 10th percentile ($21,940), a gap of $18,000 a year. The mean of $31,350 sitting above the median of $30,490 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Amusement and Recreation Attendants runs from the $40,970 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (51,970 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Amusement and Recreation Attendants stands number 100 by employment and number 822 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 18% less than its group median, and it supplies 11.8% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 17 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $30,490, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL is the largest metro employer with 23,590 jobs, 6.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $21,180 a year, against $46,290 in Kahului-Wailuku, HI. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Amusement and Recreation Attendants paycheck, gross, is $1,173 every two weeks on an annual $30,490, which is $2,541 a month and $586 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($26,430) to the 75th ($35,360) is worth $8,930 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $33,539 would sit between the median ($30,490) and the 75th percentile ($35,360), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $26,430, is $4,060 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

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