Lodging Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Lodging Managers worker at that point in the distribution, so $90,670 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

With 41,350 jobs nationally, Lodging Managers make up 0.03% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 4,760 of those jobs, the top three states hold 30.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wyoming (location quotient 4.50, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $126,990, which is 3.2 times the $39,490 at the 10th, a difference of $87,500 annually. Because the mean wage ($77,460) sits above the median ($68,130), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Lodging Managers runs from the $106,560 median in Hawaii down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (4,760 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Lodging Managers stands number 422 by employment and number 297 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 36% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 22 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $68,130, 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 1,930 jobs, 4.7% 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $70,210 a year, against $108,490 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,678 a month before tax, $2,620 biweekly, $1,310 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($50,040) to the 75th ($90,670) is worth $40,630 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $74,943 would sit between the median ($68,130) and the 75th percentile ($90,670), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $50,040, is $18,090 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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