Occupation / job
Costume Attendants
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
With a $50,400 median against a $50,020 national one, Costume Attendants is an average-paying occupation by construction — $31 a month either way. What separates it from the alternatives is not on this line.
Employment as Costume Attendants stands at 6,510. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.
Entertainment attendant work suits people who like a venue on an event night and can handle crowds, and whose hours can follow a schedule set by a season rather than a week.
How long it takes to become one of the 6,510 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $38,610, a quarter over $77,680: $3,255 a month between them at a 2.0x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Costume Attendants actually earn.
A quarter of the field earns under $38,610 — $11,410 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 need weekday hours; the work is at its busiest exactly when everyone else is off.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 6,510 figure counts people already working as Costume Attendants, 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
A 2.0x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $38,610 and $77,680, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
The middle half of this field earns between $38,610 and $77,680. That is $39,070 of range, with $50,400 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $77,680. Reaching it from the $50,400 midpoint is $27,280 a year; reaching it from the $38,610 that the bottom quarter of Costume Attendants earn is $39,070.
From $50,400 the drop to $38,610 is $11,790 and the climb to $77,680 is $27,280. 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: $18.56 at the bottom quarter, $24.23 at the midpoint, $37.34 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 Costume Attendants for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $50,400 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $50,400 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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