First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
What the pay figures show
- Washington pays this job the most, $62,900. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Wyoming wins, at $49,788. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services, Washington leads both nominally at $62,900 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Wyoming first at $49,788. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$48,560
People doing it
103,190
Highest paid
$62,900
WA
Best off, really
$49,788
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$34,760
Highest tenth
$79,060
Lowest, really
$33,826
WV
States with data
51
National average
$53,550
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $33,826 to $49,788. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- 103,190 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $48,560. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $48,560 in the middle.
- Geographic dispersion in first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $33,826 through $49,788. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- National employment in first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services is 103,190 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- 51 jurisdictions report first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,060 |
| This salary | $48,560 |
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 First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
The national median for this job
$48,560around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $34,760 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $48,560 |
| Top tenth | $79,060 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $36,230 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $62,900 |
| Spread | $26,670 |
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 | $44,690 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $45,989 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $53,580 | $45,232 | $49,788 |
| WA | $62,900 | $52,720 | $48,562 |
| ME | $59,050 | $46,961 | $48,365 |
| DE | $59,790 | $47,470 | $47,827 |
| CO | $58,640 | $47,425 | $46,779 |
| AK | $54,530 | $45,995 | $45,219 |
| DC | $62,090 | $49,480 | $44,655 |
| ND | $46,220 | $39,318 | $44,391 |
| SC | $49,550 | $41,024 | $44,028 |
| VT | $51,510 | $42,099 | $43,565 |
| MT | $47,840 | $39,128 | $43,358 |
| KS | $48,860 | $39,001 | $43,352 |
| WI | $49,100 | $40,065 | $43,036 |
| SD | $44,470 | $37,912 | $43,035 |
| NC | $49,040 | $40,136 | $42,634 |
| MO | $47,530 | $39,074 | $42,582 |
| OH | $46,310 | $38,833 | $42,296 |
| NH | $52,580 | $44,428 | $42,174 |
| NV | $48,170 | $40,885 | $42,158 |
| MA | $56,990 | $45,442 | $41,983 |
| CT | $53,980 | $43,334 | $41,792 |
| IN | $46,560 | $38,247 | $41,490 |
| MN | $50,410 | $40,780 | $41,436 |
| FL | $50,110 | $42,443 | $41,027 |
| NE | $44,910 | $36,925 | $40,857 |
| HI | $55,700 | $44,145 | $40,646 |
| TN | $44,040 | $37,566 | $40,605 |
| ID | $45,340 | $37,061 | $40,537 |
| MS | $42,590 | $34,789 | $39,854 |
| NJ | $52,360 | $42,906 | $39,406 |
| IA | $41,950 | $34,905 | $39,322 |
| TX | $44,690 | $38,088 | $39,196 |
| AL | $43,460 | $35,244 | $39,173 |
| LA | $41,350 | $34,550 | $39,109 |
| CA | $53,620 | $43,854 | $38,953 |
| PA | $45,760 | $37,543 | $38,506 |
| MD | $49,510 | $39,973 | $38,449 |
| NY | $51,320 | $41,241 | $38,319 |
| IL | $47,020 | $37,778 | $38,215 |
| UT | $44,870 | $36,236 | $38,143 |
| KY | $41,870 | $34,475 | $38,107 |
| VA | $47,410 | $38,308 | $38,024 |
| MI | $43,540 | $35,565 | $37,761 |
| OK | $40,110 | $33,104 | $37,496 |
| GA | $44,400 | $36,239 | $37,476 |
| AZ | $45,350 | $37,887 | $37,473 |
| RI | $46,080 | $37,897 | $37,370 |
| OR | $48,780 | $37,657 | $35,959 |
| AR | $36,830 | $30,869 | $35,683 |
| NM | $37,220 | $31,453 | $34,799 |
| WV | $36,230 | $30,367 | $33,826 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $48,560 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $52,720.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — West Virginia sits at the bottom on $33,826.
- All wage figures for first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $48,560. 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.
- Retained-pay figures for first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $52,720, which leads in Washington.
- The price deflation applied to first-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is West Virginia at $33,826. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — West Virginia anchors the bottom at $33,826 — and the two source series are dated independently.