Religious Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Religious Workers, All Other offer sit among all 12,170 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 12,170 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Pennsylvania is the largest employer at 1,120 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.7% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Montana, whose location quotient of 5.80 says this work is 5.80 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $75,920, which is 2.6 times the $29,120 at the 10th, a difference of $46,800 annually. Because the mean wage ($49,830) sits above the median ($45,120), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Religious Workers, All Other runs from the $60,330 median in New Jersey down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Pennsylvania (1,120 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Religious Workers, All Other stands number 658 by employment and number 642 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Community and Social Service Occupations, the group median wage is $59,190 across 17 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 24% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 2,569,640 jobs. In 12 of the 31 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $45,120, 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 1,620 jobs, 13.3% 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, $53,590 a year, against $63,530 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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 Religious Workers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $1,735 every two weeks on an annual $45,120, which is $3,760 a month and $868 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($34,700) to the 75th ($60,310) is worth $25,610 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 $49,632 would sit between the median ($45,120) and the 75th percentile ($60,310), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $34,700, is $10,420 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Community and Social Service Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Child, Family, and School Social Workers, Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors, Healthcare Social Workers, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other, Rehabilitation Counselors. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.