Industrial Production Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Industrial Production Managers worker at that point in the distribution, so $156,330 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 234,380, or 0.15% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 25,380 jobs; the top three states sum to 26.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Michigan posts a location quotient of 2.16, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $94,620 at the 25th percentile, $121,440 at the middle, $156,330 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $122,410, a ratio of 2.6 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 Industrial Production Managers runs from the $155,670 median in Wyoming down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (25,380 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Industrial Production Managers stands number 142 by employment and number 71 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 14% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.1% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 20 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $121,440, 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 8,840 jobs, 3.8% 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, Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $109,080 a year, against $180,990 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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 annual wage of $121,440 works out to $10,120 a month before taxes, $4,671 per biweekly paycheck, and $2,335 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($94,620) to the 75th ($156,330) is worth $61,710 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 $133,584 would sit between the median ($121,440) and the 75th percentile ($156,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $94,620, is $26,820 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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