Directors, Religious Activities and Education Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Directors, Religious Activities and Education offer sit among all 21,460 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

The occupation employed 21,460 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 4,890 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 47.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oregon, whose location quotient of 7.94 says this work is 7.94 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $33,990 or less, and one in ten earns $106,530 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.1 to 1 and the annual gap is $72,540. The mean ($65,040) versus median ($54,840) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $82,230, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Directors, Religious Activities and Education stands number 542 by employment and number 470 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Community and Social Service Occupations, the group median wage is $59,190 across 17 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 7% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.8% of the group's 2,569,640 jobs. In 19 of the 41 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $54,840, 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 3,500 jobs, 16.3% 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, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $54,320 a year, against $88,370 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,570 a month before tax, $2,109 biweekly, $1,055 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($42,210) to the 75th ($74,990) is worth $32,780 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $60,324 would sit between the median ($54,840) and the 75th percentile ($74,990), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $42,210, is $12,630 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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