Occupation / job
Concierges
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
A median of $38,950 against the $50,020 all-occupation figure leaves Concierges 22% behind — $11,070 across a year. Whether that is workable depends almost entirely on where you would be doing it.
49,240 people are employed as Concierges. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
Guest-facing service roles suit people who are good with strangers on first contact and can produce that reliably for every arrival, all day, without it wearing thin.
We carry no verified training length for Concierges — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $35,660 and $47,350, $974 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,660 — $14,360 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if you find continuous customer contact draining — there is no back-office half of this job to retreat into.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 49,240 figure counts people already working as Concierges, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.3x between $35,660 and $47,350, this is a narrow distribution. $38,950 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
In cash terms the middle half of Concierges runs $35,660 to $47,350 — $11,690 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $38,950.
Getting to $47,350, the 75th percentile, is worth $8,400 a year more than the $38,950 midpoint and $11,690 more than the $35,660 a quarter of Concierges settle for.
From $38,950 the drop to $35,660 is $3,290 and the climb to $47,350 is $8,400. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $17.14 at the bottom quarter, $18.72 at the midpoint, $22.76 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Concierges for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $38,950 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $38,950 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Concierges, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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