Occupation / job
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
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
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs pays $54,210, a little over the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $4,190 a year clear, or $2.01 an hour. A margin that size is worth having but is not on its own a reason to take on an entry requirement.
154,800 people are employed as Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
Information and records work suits people who can be accurate and pleasant simultaneously, often while the person in front of them is neither.
No verified preparation time is on file for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $45,910 to $63,610 — $1,475 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
The bottom quarter of Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs earns under $45,910, which is within $4,110 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if being the first point of contact for other people’s problems all day would wear you down.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 154,800 people employed as Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
The quarters are $45,910 and $63,610, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs runs $45,910 to $63,610 — $17,700 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $54,210.
Between $45,910 and $63,610 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $54,210. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $9,400; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $17,700.
$8,300 down to $45,910, $9,400 up to $63,610: the midpoint of Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.07 at the bottom quarter, $26.06 at the midpoint, $30.58 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 Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $54,210 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $54,210 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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