Skincare Specialists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Skincare Specialists offer sit among all 70,240 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

With 70,240 jobs nationally, Skincare Specialists make up 0.05% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 13,820 of those jobs, the top three states hold 36.5%, and the deepest concentration sits in California (location quotient 1.68, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $50,170 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($77,330) is 2.8 times the 10th percentile ($27,160), a gap of $50,170 a year. The mean of $48,670 sitting above the median of $41,560 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Maine posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $73,500, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Skincare Specialists stands number 328 by employment and number 679 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 11% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.2% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 28 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $41,560, 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 4,010 jobs, 5.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 208 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

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, $40,430 a year, against $77,920 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $41,560 a year is $3,463 a month gross, $1,598 every two weeks, $799 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($34,130) to the 75th ($55,860) is worth $21,730 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 $3,463 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 $45,716 would sit between the median ($41,560) and the 75th percentile ($55,860), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $34,130, is $7,430 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

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