Medical and Health Services Managers

$123,860 puts Medical and Health Services Managers among the highest medians BLS publishes, roughly 148% 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.

This is a large occupation: 597,080 people work as Medical and Health Services Managers. Large occupations hire continuously and replace continuously, and the pay reflects both facts.

Management of this kind suits people who still want to be close to the operation, since the credibility of the role rests on knowing what the work actually involves.

How long it takes to become one of the 597,080 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

The quarters sit at $94,700 and $166,100 — 1.8x, or $5,950 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 Medical and Health Services Managers pays $94,700, $44,680 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 you would find it hard to manage people you used to work beside as an equal.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 597,080 people employed as Medical and Health Services Managers; 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.

From $94,700 to $166,100 at a ratio of 1.8x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $123,860 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

Put in money rather than ratios: $94,700 at the 25th percentile, $123,860 at the midpoint, $166,100 at the 75th. $71,400 separates the quarter of Medical and Health Services Managers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

The 75th percentile is $166,100. Reaching it from the $123,860 midpoint is $42,240 a year; reaching it from the $94,700 that the bottom quarter of Medical and Health Services Managers earn is $71,400.

$42,240 separates $123,860 from the $166,100 top quarter, while only $29,160 separates it from $94,700. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Medical and Health Services Managers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $45.52 at the bottom quarter, $59.54 at the midpoint, $79.85 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.