Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
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 $48,590 against $50,020, First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers sits $0.68 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 114,110. 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.
We carry no verified training length for First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $39,050 and a quarter above $61,100: a 1.6x ratio, $22,050 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
A quarter of the field earns under $39,050 — $10,970 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.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 114,110 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 1.6x between $39,050 and $61,100 this is a normally shaped occupation. $48,590 is what the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers runs $39,050 to $61,100 — $22,050 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $48,590.
Between $39,050 and $61,100 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $48,590. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $12,510; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $22,050.
From $48,590 it is $9,540 down to the bottom quarter and $12,510 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $23.36 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers, $18.77 at the 25th percentile and $29.37 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 First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $48,590 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $48,590 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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