Occupation / job
Personal Service Managers, All Other
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
A midpoint of $69,770 against $50,020 means Personal Service Managers, All Other pays $1,645 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.
Employment as Personal Service Managers, All Other is 10,450 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
These posts suit people who can hold responsibility for an operation and its people at the same time, in organisations small enough that both land on one desk.
We carry no verified training length for Personal Service Managers, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $54,130 and $94,440 — 1.7x, or $3,359 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.
The 25th percentile is $54,130, $4,110 above the $50,020 typical American job. A floor above the national midpoint is rare, and it is worth more than an equivalent amount of upside.
Avoid it if you would resent losing the hands-on work; the promotion usually removes the part of the job you were good at.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 10,450 figure counts people already working as Personal Service Managers, All Other, 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 1.7x, the distribution for Personal Service Managers, All Other is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $54,130 to $94,440 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
Put in money rather than ratios: $54,130 at the 25th percentile, $69,770 at the midpoint, $94,440 at the 75th. $40,310 separates the quarter of Personal Service Managers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $94,440, the 75th percentile, is worth $24,670 a year more than the $69,770 midpoint and $40,310 more than the $54,130 a quarter of Personal Service Managers, All Other settle for.
The distance from the midpoint up to $94,440 is $24,670 — well over the $15,640 down to $54,130. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Personal Service Managers, All Other earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Personal Service Managers, All Other is $33.54 an hour. The quarters sit at $26.02 and $45.40, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $69,770 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $69,770 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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