Occupation / job
Management Analysts
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 $101,860 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Management Analysts pays 104% more than the typical American job — $51,840 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.
At 898,280 workers, Management Analysts is one of the largest occupations in the country. Jobs at this scale are the labour market’s floor — always hiring, rarely bidding, and first to absorb people leaving somewhere else.
This work suits people who can turn a mess into a plan and then get others to follow it without having the authority to compel anyone.
No verified preparation time is on file for Management Analysts. 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
The quarters sit at $77,950 and $133,370 — 1.7x, or $4,618 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even at the 25th percentile Management Analysts pays $77,950, $27,930 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.
Avoid it if being responsible for an outcome you cannot directly control would frustrate you.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 898,280 figure counts people already working as Management Analysts, 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
A ratio of 1.7x — $77,950 to $133,370 — is wide enough that specialising inside Management Analysts pays measurably. $101,860 is the middle of a range you can move within.
The middle half of this field earns between $77,950 and $133,370. That is $55,420 of range, with $101,860 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $133,370. Reaching it from the $101,860 midpoint is $31,510 a year; reaching it from the $77,950 that the bottom quarter of Management Analysts earn is $55,420.
The climb from $101,860 to $133,370 is $31,510; the drop to $77,950 is $23,910. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Management Analysts and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $48.97 at the midpoint for Management Analysts, $37.47 at the 25th percentile and $64.12 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 Management Analysts for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $101,860 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Management Analysts, the hourly figure is $101,860 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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