Management Analysts 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 ($59,720) to the 90th ($174,140). 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

With 893,900 jobs nationally, Management Analysts make up 0.58% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 136,200 of those jobs, the top three states hold 30.8%, and the deepest concentration sits in District of Columbia (location quotient 4.95, 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: $76,770 at the 25th percentile, $101,190 at the middle, $133,140 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $114,420, a ratio of 2.9 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

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 136,200 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $131,840. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Management Analysts stands number 38 by employment and number 118 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Business and Financial Operations Occupations, the group median wage is $78,420 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 29% more than its group median, and it supplies 8.6% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 16 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $101,190, 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

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 68,900 jobs, 7.7% 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, Tallahassee, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $64,610 a year, against $163,740 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 $101,190 works out to $8,432 a month before taxes, $3,892 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,946 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($76,770) to the 75th ($133,140) is worth $56,370 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 $111,309 would sit between the median ($101,190) and the 75th percentile ($133,140), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $76,770, is $24,420 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Business and Financial Operations Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Training and Development Specialists, Compliance Officers, Financial and Investment Analysts, Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators, Loan Officers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.