Postmasters and Mail Superintendents

$96,660 is $3,886 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Postmasters and Mail Superintendents are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

13,810 people work as Postmasters and Mail Superintendents. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.

These management roles are usually reached by doing the underlying work first, so they suit people who want authority over a craft they already understand rather than management as its own career.

No verified preparation time is on file for Postmasters and Mail Superintendents. 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.

From $90,650 at the bottom quarter to $102,960 at the top is $1,025 a month — a 1.1x ratio, which is about as compressed as this dataset gets. Doing Postmasters and Mail Superintendents unusually well is worth strikingly little in cash.

Even at the 25th percentile Postmasters and Mail Superintendents pays $90,650, $40,630 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 resent losing the hands-on work; the promotion usually removes the part of the job you were good at.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 13,810 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.

With only 1.1x between $90,650 and $102,960, $96,660 is very close to what almost everyone in this work earns. That is the definition of a scheduled wage, and it means the question is whether you want the job, not how well you can do it.

In cash terms the middle half of Postmasters and Mail Superintendents runs $90,650 to $102,960 — $12,310 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $96,660.

Between $90,650 and $102,960 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $96,660. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $6,300; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $12,310.

$6,010 down to $90,650, $6,300 up to $102,960: the midpoint of Postmasters and Mail Superintendents is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $43.58 at the bottom quarter, $46.47 at the midpoint, $49.50 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.