Medical and Health Services Managers 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 Medical and Health Services Managers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $88,560. 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

BLS counted 565,840 Medical and Health Services Managers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.37% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Maryland, where the location quotient is 1.55, meaning the occupation holds 1.55 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 68,800 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 29.4% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $88,560 at the 25th percentile, $117,960 at the middle, $162,420 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $149,400, a ratio of 3.1 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 68,800 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, District of Columbia would lead at $161,050. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Medical and Health Services Managers stands number 66 by employment and number 73 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 10% more than its group median, and it supplies 5.2% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 21 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $117,960, 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 33,540 jobs, 5.9% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $100,720 a year, against $185,550 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $9,830 a month before tax, $4,537 biweekly, $2,268 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($88,560) to the 75th ($162,420) is worth $73,860 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 $129,756 would sit between the median ($117,960) and the 75th percentile ($162,420), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $88,560, is $29,400 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: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers, Administrative Services Managers, Food Service Managers, Industrial Production Managers, Human Resources Managers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.