First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($32,960) to the 90th ($76,430). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 92,830 people in May 2024, 0.06% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 13,570 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Alaska, whose location quotient of 3.38 says this work is 3.38 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $32,960 or less, and one in ten earns $76,430 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.3 to 1 and the annual gap is $43,470. The mean ($51,400) versus median ($46,900) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services runs from the $58,170 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (13,570 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services stands number 285 by employment and number 600 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 26% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.9% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 22 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,900, 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 4,480 jobs, 4.8% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $43,160 a year, against $65,210 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $46,900 works out to $3,908 a month before taxes, $1,804 per biweekly paycheck, and $902 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,960) to the 75th ($60,190) is worth $22,230 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $51,590 would sit between the median ($46,900) and the 75th percentile ($60,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,960, is $8,940 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Skincare Specialists, Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other, Tour and Travel Guides, Concierges, Baggage Porters and Bellhops, Funeral Attendants. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.