Emergency Management Directors

$93,330 is $3,609 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Emergency Management Directors are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

Employment as Emergency Management Directors is 13,500 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

Management of this kind suits people who still want to be close to the operation, since the credibility of the role rests on knowing what the work actually involves.

How long it takes to become one of the 13,500 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.

A quarter of the field earns under $67,910 and a quarter over $126,490: $58,580 between them, a ratio of 1.9x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

At $67,910, or $32.64 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $17,890 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.

Avoid it if you would resent losing the hands-on work; the promotion usually removes the part of the job you were good at.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 13,500 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.

At 1.9x, the distribution for Emergency Management Directors is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $67,910 to $126,490 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.

The middle half of this field earns between $67,910 and $126,490. That is $58,580 of range, with $93,330 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $67,910 and $126,490 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $93,330. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $33,160; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $58,580.

The climb from $93,330 to $126,490 is $33,160; the drop to $67,910 is $25,420. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Emergency Management Directors and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $32.64 at the bottom quarter, $44.87 at the midpoint, $60.81 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.