Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling offer sit among all 36,700 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

With 36,700 jobs nationally, Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling make up 0.02% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 8,510 of those jobs, the top three states hold 39.5%, and the deepest concentration sits in Illinois (location quotient 2.30, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $58,380 at the 25th percentile, $77,180 at the middle, $101,750 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $89,360, a ratio of 3.0 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 Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling runs from the $114,440 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (8,510 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling stands number 446 by employment and number 236 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 28% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 21 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $77,180, 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 3,060 jobs, 8.3% 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, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $69,970 a year, against $110,610 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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

The median Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling paycheck, gross, is $2,968 every two weeks on an annual $77,180, which is $6,432 a month and $1,484 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($58,380) to the 75th ($101,750) is worth $43,370 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 $84,898 would sit between the median ($77,180) and the 75th percentile ($101,750), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $58,380, is $18,800 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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