First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers 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 ($32,150) to the 90th ($73,800). 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

BLS counted 107,060 First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.07% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Maryland, where the location quotient is 2.29, meaning the occupation holds 2.29 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 11,010 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 26.6% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $32,150 or less, and one in ten earns $73,800 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.3 to 1 and the annual gap is $41,650. The mean ($50,920) versus median ($47,080) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Washington at $59,830; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers stands number 260 by employment and number 593 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 3.4% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 18 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,080, 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 8,790 jobs, 8.2% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

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, $44,190 a year, against $64,550 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers paycheck, gross, is $1,811 every two weeks on an annual $47,080, which is $3,923 a month and $905 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,800) to the 75th ($59,330) is worth $21,530 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 $51,788 would sit between the median ($47,080) and the 75th percentile ($59,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,800, is $9,280 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

Sibling occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations: Gambling Dealers, Residential Advisors, Skincare Specialists, Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other, Tour and Travel Guides, Concierges. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.