Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs offer sit among all 156,260 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

BLS counted 156,260 Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs jobs in May 2024, which is 0.10% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, where the location quotient is 1.73, meaning the occupation holds 1.73 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 29,950 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 34.5% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $72,280, which is 1.9 times the $37,690 at the 10th, a difference of $34,590 annually. Because the mean wage ($53,970) sits above the median ($51,500), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $75,050, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs stands number 194 by employment and number 501 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 8% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.9% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 23 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $51,500, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 14,810 jobs, 9.5% 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, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $39,630 a year, against $84,460 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, 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: $4,292 a month before tax, $1,981 biweekly, $990 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($43,850) to the 75th ($61,680) is worth $17,830 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 $56,650 would sit between the median ($51,500) and the 75th percentile ($61,680), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $43,850, is $7,650 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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