What Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

The three rows below are the whole earnings story Scorecard can tell about Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management: $42,520, then $54,302, then $55,180. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 47 programs at year one and 59 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.

Earnings in this field climb $12,660 between the first and fifth year, a 30% rise that trails the all-fields pattern (the median field in this dataset pays $45,010 at year one and $65,763 at year five). Early-career growth this shape usually means the first job is a foothold: licensure, a portfolio, or a first promotion does the heavy lifting.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management are $43,411 (received Pell) and $44,247 (did not), $836 apart. The split is a reminder that a field median averages over very different starting points; the institution a student picks inside the field moves their personal figure more than the field label does.

Inside its own CIP family, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management ranks 3 of 3 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $57,987. Its closest sibling is Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies at $57,987, above this field's $55,180. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management stands number 138 by five-year earnings and number 120 by first-year earnings, and number 137 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 1 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $22,500 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management, pooled from 37 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $42,520 that balance is 53% of a year's gross pay, roughly 6.3 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $256 a month and $8,185 in total interest. Your own balance and rate belong in the student loan payoff calculator; the degree-level verdict belongs in the college ROI calculator and the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management, individual programs post five-year medians far from $55,180 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; University of New Hampshire-Main Campus sits first at $65,744.

A program median describes that program's own graduates in that program's own labor market; University of New Hampshire-Main Campus at $65,744 is evidence about a place and a mix of students, not a wage offer. Put the same programs' prices next to these figures with the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator before ranking anything.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 7.5% of the 4,918 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $65,744 sits 19% above the national field median of $55,180. Its median debt, $26,861, runs above the field median of $22,500, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.