Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists offer sit among all 102,370 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 102,370, or 0.07% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 13,640 jobs; the top three states sum to 30.0% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: South Dakota posts a location quotient of 2.51, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $80,530 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($128,830) is 2.7 times the 10th percentile ($48,300), a gap of $80,530 a year. The mean of $82,920 sitting above the median of $77,020 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 13,640 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $93,450. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists stands number 265 by employment and number 239 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Business and Financial Operations Occupations, the group median wage is $78,420 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 2% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 18 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $77,020, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 8,420 jobs, 8.2% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Oklahoma City, OK posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $58,760 a year, against $137,210 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists paycheck, gross, is $2,962 every two weeks on an annual $77,020, which is $6,418 a month and $1,481 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($59,700) to the 75th ($99,210) is worth $39,510 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 $84,722 would sit between the median ($77,020) and the 75th percentile ($99,210), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $59,700, is $17,320 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Business and Financial Operations Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Training and Development Specialists, Compliance Officers, Financial and Investment Analysts, Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators, Loan Officers, Personal Financial Advisors. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.