Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other 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 ($24,980) to the 90th ($49,300). 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

The occupation employed 62,390 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. Oregon is the largest employer at 22,620 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 50.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oregon, whose location quotient of 28.44 says this work is 28.44 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $24,320 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($49,300) is 2.0 times the 10th percentile ($24,980), a gap of $24,320 a year. The mean of $37,990 sitting above the median of $37,900 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Oregon first at 22,620 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New York would lead at $46,160. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other stands number 351 by employment and number 743 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 2% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.0% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 12 of the 44 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,900, 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

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the largest metro employer with 10,870 jobs, 17.4% 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, Pittsburgh, PA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $25,660 a year, against $49,880 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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

As a household number, $37,900 a year is $3,158 a month gross, $1,458 every two weeks, $729 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($32,450) to the 75th ($39,190) is worth $6,740 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,158 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $41,690 would sit between the median ($37,900) and the 75th percentile ($39,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $32,450, is $5,450 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Manicurists and Pedicurists, Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers, First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers, First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services, Gambling Dealers, Residential Advisors. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.