Emergency Management Directors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Emergency Management Directors ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $64,470. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 12,570 Emergency Management Directors jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Alaska, where the location quotient is 3.73, meaning the occupation holds 3.73 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 1,080 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 23.1% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $64,470 at the 25th percentile, $86,130 at the middle, $119,690 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $109,160, a ratio of 3.1 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Emergency Management Directors runs from the $185,810 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,080 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Emergency Management Directors stands number 650 by employment and number 177 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 19% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 18 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $86,130, 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 580 jobs, 4.6% 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $120,070 a year, against $120,070 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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 Emergency Management Directors paycheck, gross, is $3,313 every two weeks on an annual $86,130, which is $7,178 a month and $1,656 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,470) to the 75th ($119,690) is worth $55,220 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 $94,743 would sit between the median ($86,130) and the 75th percentile ($119,690), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,470, is $21,660 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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