Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
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
At $48,560 against $50,020, First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services sits $0.70 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.
National employment is 103,190. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
Supervising personal care and service work suits people who can hold staff to a client-facing standard while covering the shift themselves when someone does not turn up.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services. 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
From $39,400 to $62,320 is $1,910 a month, or 1.6x 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 the field earns under $39,400 — $10,620 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 to stop being client-facing when you are promoted — here you get both jobs.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 103,190 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services; 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
1.6x between $39,400 and $62,320 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $48,560 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
Put in money rather than ratios: $39,400 at the 25th percentile, $48,560 at the midpoint, $62,320 at the 75th. $22,920 separates the quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $62,320. Reaching it from the $48,560 midpoint is $13,760 a year; reaching it from the $39,400 that the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services earn is $22,920.
$13,760 separates $48,560 from the $62,320 top quarter, while only $9,160 separates it from $39,400. The range leans upward, which means the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $18.94 at the bottom quarter, $23.34 at the midpoint, $29.96 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
The $48,560 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services, the hourly figure is $48,560 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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