Social and Community Service Managers

$80,390 is $2,530 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Social and Community Service Managers are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

National employment is 209,330. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.

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 Social and Community Service Managers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter earn below $64,290 and a quarter above $103,200: a 1.6x ratio, $38,910 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

Even the bottom quarter of Social and Community Service Managers earns $64,290 — $30.90 an hour and $14,270 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.

Avoid it if you need the authority to match the accountability; in operations of this size it rarely does.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 209,330 people employed as Social and Community Service 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.

At 1.6x between $64,290 and $103,200 this is a normally shaped occupation. $80,390 is what the middle of Social and Community Service Managers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

The middle half of this field earns between $64,290 and $103,200. That is $38,910 of range, with $80,390 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $103,200, the 75th percentile, is worth $22,810 a year more than the $80,390 midpoint and $38,910 more than the $64,290 a quarter of Social and Community Service Managers settle for.

The climb from $80,390 to $103,200 is $22,810, against $16,100 down to $64,290. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Social and Community Service Managers is larger than the realistic downside.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Social and Community Service Managers is $38.64 an hour. The quarters sit at $30.90 and $49.61, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.