Occupation / job
Industrial Production Managers
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
$126,060 puts Industrial Production Managers among the highest medians BLS publishes, roughly 152% above the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Pay at this level always has a gate in front of it: a residency, a bar exam, a clearance, or a decade.
National employment is 246,250. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
These roles suit people who want to own a system rather than a number — the good ones are judged on whether the function runs, not on whether it grew.
No verified preparation time is on file for Industrial Production Managers. 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 $98,160 to $161,880 is $5,310 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 25th percentile is $98,160, $48,140 above the $50,020 typical American job. When even the floor is this high, the thing to investigate is the entry requirement rather than the pay.
Avoid it if you want the top job; running a function well is not the usual route to running the organisation.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 246,250 figure counts people already working as Industrial Production Managers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $98,160 and $161,880 this is a normally shaped occupation. $126,060 is what the middle of Industrial Production Managers 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 Industrial Production Managers runs $98,160 to $161,880 — $63,720 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $126,060.
The 75th percentile is $161,880. Reaching it from the $126,060 midpoint is $35,820 a year; reaching it from the $98,160 that the bottom quarter of Industrial Production Managers earn is $63,720.
From $126,060 it is $27,900 down to the bottom quarter and $35,820 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Industrial Production Managers is $60.60 an hour. The quarters sit at $47.19 and $77.82, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Industrial Production Managers. The self-employed are excluded, so $126,060 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $126,060 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Industrial Production Managers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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