Occupation / job
Residential Advisors
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 $42,240 against $50,020, this pays $648 a month less than the typical American job. Below the midpoint but within reach of it: the spread and the floor below decide whether that description flatters Residential Advisors or not.
84,760 people are employed as Residential Advisors. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
These personal care roles suit people who are good with strangers quickly and repeatedly, since the same interpersonal skill has to be produced fresh for every client all day.
We carry no verified training length for Residential Advisors — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Residential Advisors earn under $35,510 and a quarter over $49,920 — 1.4x, or $14,410 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
A quarter of Residential Advisors earn under $35,510, which is $14,510 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
Avoid it if you need a schedule that does not follow other people’s evenings, weekends and school terms.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 84,760 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
The quarters are $35,510 and $49,920, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Residential Advisors is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Residential Advisors runs $35,510 to $49,920 — $14,410 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $42,240.
Between $35,510 and $49,920 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $42,240. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $7,680; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $14,410.
$6,730 down to $35,510, $7,680 up to $49,920: the midpoint of Residential Advisors 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: $17.07 at the bottom quarter, $20.30 at the midpoint, $24.00 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
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Residential Advisors for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $42,240 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Residential Advisors, the hourly figure is $42,240 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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