Occupation / job
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association 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
A midpoint of $69,990 against $50,020 means Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers pays $1,664 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.
311,180 people work as Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
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 Property, Real Estate, and Community Association 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
A quarter of the field earns under $50,720 and a quarter over $97,910: $47,190 between them, a ratio of 1.9x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
Even the 25th percentile pays $50,720, $700 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $24.38 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers.
Avoid it if you would find it hard to manage people you used to work beside as an equal.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 311,180 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.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.9x — $50,720 to $97,910 — is wide enough that specialising inside Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers pays measurably. $69,990 is the middle of a range you can move within.
In cash terms the middle half of Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers runs $50,720 to $97,910 — $47,190 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $69,990.
Between $50,720 and $97,910 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $69,990. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $27,920; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $47,190.
$27,920 separates $69,990 from the $97,910 top quarter, while only $19,270 separates it from $50,720. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Property, Real Estate, and Community Association 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: $24.38 at the bottom quarter, $33.64 at the midpoint, $47.07 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $69,990 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 $69,990 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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