Lodging Managers
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for lodging managers. Best paid: Hawaii, at $114,070. Tax does not change that. Best off: Rhode Island, at $79,016 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Hawaii's $114,070 median for lodging managers survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: Rhode Island takes the top position at $79,016. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$69,250
People doing it
42,620
Highest paid
$114,070
HI
Best off, really
$79,016
RI, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$40,070
Highest tenth
$128,880
Lowest, really
$42,046
MO
States with data
51
National average
$78,740
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.41%
RI, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $42,046 to $79,016.
- Just 42,620 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $69,250 in the middle.
- Geographic dispersion in lodging managers is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $42,046 to $79,016 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 42,620 are employed nationally in lodging managers — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- 51 jurisdictions report lodging managers, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Lodging Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $128,880 |
| This salary | $69,250 |
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 Lodging Managers
The national median for this job
$69,250around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $40,070 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $69,250 |
| Top tenth | $128,880 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Lodging Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $45,870 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Hawaii · $114,070 |
| Spread | $68,200 |
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 | $62,000 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $63,802 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RI | $106,630 | $80,132 | $79,016 |
| HI | $114,070 | $81,852 | $75,364 |
| WA | $101,350 | $80,130 | $73,810 |
| NJ | $107,720 | $79,939 | $73,418 |
| CO | $91,750 | $70,048 | $69,093 |
| MA | $97,350 | $72,768 | $67,230 |
| NV | $78,110 | $63,780 | $65,767 |
| VT | $81,440 | $62,858 | $65,047 |
| WV | $72,800 | $57,600 | $64,162 |
| AK | $80,060 | $65,152 | $64,054 |
| WI | $73,590 | $57,687 | $61,964 |
| MN | $78,890 | $60,488 | $61,461 |
| NH | $79,210 | $64,554 | $61,279 |
| AZ | $77,670 | $61,932 | $61,255 |
| AL | $69,420 | $54,683 | $60,779 |
| NE | $67,990 | $54,271 | $60,050 |
| NM | $67,320 | $54,191 | $59,955 |
| ND | $62,770 | $52,616 | $59,404 |
| MT | $66,580 | $53,268 | $59,027 |
| SD | $61,920 | $51,933 | $58,951 |
| IN | $67,070 | $54,065 | $58,649 |
| LA | $63,000 | $51,297 | $58,064 |
| DE | $73,850 | $57,140 | $57,570 |
| CT | $76,940 | $59,476 | $57,360 |
| MS | $62,550 | $50,029 | $57,312 |
| TN | $63,050 | $52,841 | $57,116 |
| ID | $65,390 | $52,108 | $56,996 |
| NY | $79,460 | $61,036 | $56,711 |
| WY | $61,190 | $51,346 | $56,519 |
| KS | $64,220 | $50,486 | $56,117 |
| UT | $67,060 | $53,023 | $55,812 |
| FL | $69,120 | $57,456 | $55,539 |
| MD | $73,260 | $57,252 | $55,069 |
| SC | $62,990 | $50,932 | $54,661 |
| NC | $63,860 | $51,452 | $54,656 |
| IA | $59,680 | $48,477 | $54,611 |
| TX | $62,000 | $51,997 | $53,509 |
| CA | $76,950 | $59,881 | $53,189 |
| KY | $59,440 | $47,977 | $53,032 |
| DC | $75,610 | $58,553 | $52,844 |
| VA | $66,990 | $52,866 | $52,473 |
| ME | $62,400 | $49,426 | $50,904 |
| PA | $60,980 | $49,305 | $50,570 |
| GA | $61,060 | $48,794 | $50,459 |
| MI | $58,970 | $47,307 | $50,228 |
| IL | $61,530 | $48,718 | $49,283 |
| OK | $50,740 | $41,167 | $46,629 |
| OR | $63,220 | $47,996 | $45,832 |
| OH | $48,690 | $40,680 | $44,308 |
| AR | $45,870 | $37,798 | $43,693 |
| MO | $46,880 | $38,582 | $42,046 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for lodging managers as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $69,250, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for lodging managers, 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 Hawaii, at $81,852.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for lodging managers. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Missouri, on $42,046.
- These are distribution medians for lodging managers, with a national value of $69,250. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for lodging managers 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 $81,852, which leads in Hawaii.
- Real-terms results for lodging managers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Missouri anchors the distribution at $42,046. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.