Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers worker at that point in the distribution, so $95,760 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 296,640 jobs nationally, Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers make up 0.19% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 50,410 of those jobs, the top three states hold 31.6%, and the deepest concentration sits in Hawaii (location quotient 1.65, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $39,360 or less, and one in ten earns $141,040 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.6 to 1 and the annual gap is $101,680. The mean ($82,720) versus median ($66,700) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Washington at $118,470; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers stands number 122 by employment and number 313 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 38% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.7% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 17 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $66,700, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 20,120 jobs, 6.8% 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, Sioux Falls, SD-MN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $51,510 a year, against $148,380 in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. 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: $5,558 a month before tax, $2,565 biweekly, $1,283 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,530) to the 75th ($95,760) is worth $46,230 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 $73,370 would sit between the median ($66,700) and the 75th percentile ($95,760), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,530, is $17,170 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

Sibling occupations in Management Occupations: Public Relations Managers, Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare, Education Administrators, All Other, Training and Development Managers, Lodging Managers, Fundraising Managers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.