Occupation / job
Directors, Religious Activities and Education
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 $52,100 median against a $50,020 national one, Directors, Religious Activities and Education is an average-paying occupation by construction — $173 a month either way. What separates it from the alternatives is not on this line.
With 22,160 employed as Directors, Religious Activities and Education, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
Religious work suits people whose reason for doing it would survive the pay being lower, because the role is available at almost any hour and the boundary has to be set by you.
We carry no verified training length for Directors, Religious Activities and Education — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
From $44,010 to $73,730 is $2,476 a month, or 1.7x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
A quarter of Directors, Religious Activities and Education earn less than $44,010, $6,010 off the $50,020 national midpoint — $21.15 an hour. The floor here is close enough to ordinary that the case against this work, if there is one, is not financial.
Avoid it if you need a boundary between your work and your private life; in this role the community does not observe one.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 22,160 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.7x between $44,010 and $73,730 this is a normally shaped occupation. $52,100 is what the middle of Directors, Religious Activities and Education earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
The middle half of this field earns between $44,010 and $73,730. That is $29,720 of range, with $52,100 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $73,730, the 75th percentile, is worth $21,630 a year more than the $52,100 midpoint and $29,720 more than the $44,010 a quarter of Directors, Religious Activities and Education settle for.
$8,090 below the midpoint, $21,630 above it. That asymmetry is extreme even for this data, and it means every summary of Directors, Religious Activities and Education that is not a median — including any average you see quoted elsewhere — is describing the top of the range rather than the middle.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $25.04 at the midpoint for Directors, Religious Activities and Education, $21.15 at the 25th percentile and $35.44 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Directors, Religious Activities and Education for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $52,100 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Directors, Religious Activities and Education, the hourly figure is $52,100 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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