Managers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Managers, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $100,010. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 630,980 people in May 2024, 0.41% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 103,510 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 32.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in District of Columbia, whose location quotient of 6.27 says this work is 6.27 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $100,010 at the 25th percentile, $136,550 at the middle, $179,190 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $158,730, a ratio of 3.3 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 103,510 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $172,380. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Managers, All Other stands number 59 by employment and number 47 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 28% more than its group median, and it supplies 5.8% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 14 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $136,550, 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 42,870 jobs, 6.8% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 385 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $91,350 a year, against $252,250 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $11,379 a month before tax, $5,252 biweekly, $2,626 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($100,010) to the 75th ($179,190) is worth $79,180 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 $150,205 would sit between the median ($136,550) and the 75th percentile ($179,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $100,010, is $36,540 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Education Administrators, All Other, Training and Development Managers, Lodging Managers, Fundraising Managers, Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling, Legislators. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.