Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 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 Postmasters and Mail Superintendents ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $87,150. 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

With 13,810 jobs nationally, Postmasters and Mail Superintendents make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 830 of those jobs, the top three states hold 17.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Alaska (location quotient 5.70, 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 $109,140, which is 1.3 times the $81,430 at the 10th, a difference of $27,710 annually. Because the mean wage ($93,760) sits above the median ($92,730), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Florida posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $98,990, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Postmasters and Mail Superintendents stands number 631 by employment and number 155 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 13% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 25 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $92,730, 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 550 jobs, 4.0% 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $99,000 a year, against $99,000 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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 Postmasters and Mail Superintendents paycheck, gross, is $3,567 every two weeks on an annual $92,730, which is $7,728 a month and $1,783 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($87,150) to the 75th ($99,590) is worth $12,440 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $102,003 would sit between the median ($92,730) and the 75th percentile ($99,590), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $87,150, is $5,580 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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