Facilities Managers
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for facilities managers is Washington, at $139,990. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and Alabama comes out ahead, worth $98,883. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for facilities managers: Washington leads at $139,990 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting Alabama to $98,883 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$106,660
People doing it
156,180
Highest paid
$139,990
WA
Best off, really
$98,883
AL, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$64,480
Highest tenth
$176,120
Lowest, really
$69,843
VT
States with data
51
National average
$116,890
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
89.97%
AL, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $69,843 and $98,883. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- About 156,180 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $106,660. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $106,660, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Wages for facilities managers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $69,843 to $98,883. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- With 156,180 workers, facilities managers sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for facilities managers, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Facilities Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $106,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $176,120 |
| This salary | $106,660 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Facilities Managers
The national median for this job
$106,660around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $64,480 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $106,660 |
| Top tenth | $176,120 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Facilities Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Vermont · $88,710 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $139,990 |
| Spread | $51,280 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $99,430 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $102,321 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $121,010 | $88,965 | $98,883 |
| WA | $139,990 | $106,949 | $98,514 |
| KS | $117,270 | $85,074 | $94,564 |
| DE | $129,260 | $92,315 | $93,010 |
| WY | $106,330 | $83,633 | $92,058 |
| SD | $101,280 | $80,080 | $90,902 |
| TN | $106,730 | $83,915 | $90,704 |
| NM | $108,110 | $80,919 | $89,526 |
| CO | $122,510 | $90,320 | $89,088 |
| NY | $131,350 | $94,065 | $87,400 |
| AK | $113,510 | $88,684 | $87,189 |
| GA | $114,360 | $84,175 | $87,048 |
| NC | $108,130 | $81,094 | $86,143 |
| IN | $104,560 | $79,333 | $86,059 |
| NE | $102,150 | $76,748 | $84,921 |
| IA | $99,010 | $75,333 | $84,866 |
| LA | $97,120 | $74,627 | $84,472 |
| KY | $100,720 | $76,279 | $84,316 |
| VA | $116,540 | $84,875 | $84,244 |
| MA | $124,100 | $90,203 | $83,338 |
| SC | $103,940 | $77,503 | $83,178 |
| NJ | $124,110 | $90,379 | $83,006 |
| NV | $101,850 | $80,481 | $82,988 |
| WI | $103,620 | $77,030 | $82,742 |
| ND | $92,040 | $73,045 | $82,469 |
| MO | $100,380 | $75,667 | $82,460 |
| OH | $97,740 | $75,619 | $82,362 |
| ID | $99,870 | $74,649 | $81,650 |
| MS | $93,640 | $71,052 | $81,396 |
| MN | $109,720 | $80,080 | $81,369 |
| TX | $99,430 | $78,779 | $81,069 |
| WV | $95,050 | $72,233 | $80,463 |
| MT | $96,100 | $72,368 | $80,191 |
| AR | $89,810 | $69,147 | $79,931 |
| IL | $106,980 | $78,940 | $79,854 |
| NH | $106,690 | $83,886 | $79,630 |
| RI | $106,510 | $80,053 | $78,938 |
| CT | $110,990 | $81,502 | $78,602 |
| MI | $98,150 | $73,958 | $78,525 |
| UT | $99,320 | $74,282 | $78,190 |
| OK | $90,390 | $68,852 | $77,988 |
| AZ | $99,880 | $77,001 | $76,160 |
| CA | $118,620 | $85,340 | $75,803 |
| FL | $98,780 | $78,322 | $75,708 |
| DC | $115,770 | $83,402 | $75,270 |
| PA | $95,290 | $72,941 | $74,811 |
| ME | $98,310 | $72,604 | $74,775 |
| OR | $110,710 | $77,578 | $74,080 |
| HI | $108,750 | $78,514 | $72,290 |
| MD | $97,700 | $73,285 | $70,490 |
| VT | $88,710 | $67,493 | $69,843 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for facilities managers, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $106,660 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for facilities managers. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $106,949.
- The price adjustment for facilities managers uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Vermont anchors the bottom at $69,843. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- All wage figures for facilities managers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $106,660. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- The household modeled for facilities managers is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $106,949. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms figures for facilities managers deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.