First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

A midpoint of $74,450 against $50,020 means First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers pays $2,035 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.

673,430 people do this work. An occupation this large has a published, well-known going rate — which means less scope to be underpaid and less scope to negotiate above it.

Supervising production suits people who can hold output, quality and safety at once on a line where the three regularly pull against each other.

We carry no verified training length for First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

From $58,630 to $91,680 is $2,754 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.

The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers earns $58,630 or more — $8,610 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.

Avoid it if you could not hold a line to a standard when the schedule and the standard disagree.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 673,430 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 1.6x between $58,630 and $91,680 this is a normally shaped occupation. $74,450 is what the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating 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 Production and Operating Workers runs $58,630 to $91,680 — $33,050 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $74,450.

The 75th percentile is $91,680. Reaching it from the $74,450 midpoint is $17,230 a year; reaching it from the $58,630 that the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers earn is $33,050.

$74,450 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $15,820 above the bottom quarter, $17,230 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $35.79 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers, $28.18 at the 25th percentile and $44.07 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.