Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
What the pay figures show
- Washington comes first for this job on every measure. $119,320 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $85,455 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For property, real estate, and community association managers, Washington's $119,320 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $85,455. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$69,990
People doing it
311,180
Highest paid
$119,320
WA
Best off, really
$85,455
WA, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$41,010
Highest tenth
$139,680
Lowest, really
$45,368
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States with data
51
National average
$83,710
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
108.56%
WA, 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 $45,368 to $85,455.
- Roughly 311,180 people hold this job nationally, earning $69,990 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $69,990 in the middle.
- Geographic dispersion in property, real estate, and community association 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 $45,368 to $85,455 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 311,180 are employed nationally in property, real estate, and community association managers, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 51 jurisdictions report property, real estate, and community association managers, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $139,680 |
| This salary | $69,990 |
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 Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The national median for this job
$69,990around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $41,010 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $69,990 |
| Top tenth | $139,680 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $47,760 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $119,320 |
| Spread | $71,560 |
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 | $61,320 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $63,103 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA | $119,320 | $92,772 | $85,455 |
| CO | $100,080 | $75,541 | $74,511 |
| MA | $103,410 | $76,728 | $70,889 |
| NY | $99,390 | $73,927 | $68,689 |
| WI | $77,730 | $60,353 | $64,828 |
| DC | $94,080 | $69,987 | $63,163 |
| RI | $80,260 | $62,703 | $61,830 |
| AK | $76,800 | $62,859 | $61,799 |
| GA | $75,380 | $58,697 | $60,701 |
| VA | $79,810 | $61,148 | $60,693 |
| MD | $81,900 | $62,920 | $60,520 |
| NJ | $82,850 | $64,027 | $58,804 |
| NH | $75,500 | $61,944 | $58,801 |
| TN | $64,870 | $54,303 | $58,696 |
| IL | $74,980 | $58,012 | $58,684 |
| OK | $64,640 | $51,710 | $58,571 |
| FL | $70,810 | $58,645 | $56,688 |
| NM | $62,230 | $50,423 | $55,786 |
| ND | $58,500 | $49,185 | $55,531 |
| WY | $60,060 | $50,438 | $55,519 |
| CT | $73,940 | $57,530 | $55,483 |
| OR | $78,060 | $57,465 | $54,875 |
| NE | $61,610 | $49,584 | $54,864 |
| SC | $62,810 | $50,799 | $54,519 |
| PA | $65,680 | $52,938 | $54,295 |
| MO | $61,640 | $49,748 | $54,214 |
| UT | $64,290 | $50,976 | $53,658 |
| DE | $67,600 | $53,156 | $53,556 |
| IN | $60,600 | $49,114 | $53,278 |
| CA | $77,030 | $59,931 | $53,233 |
| IA | $57,980 | $47,175 | $53,145 |
| OH | $59,050 | $48,719 | $53,064 |
| TX | $61,320 | $51,451 | $52,946 |
| NC | $61,430 | $49,597 | $52,685 |
| VT | $62,810 | $50,613 | $52,375 |
| MN | $64,890 | $51,430 | $52,257 |
| MT | $58,050 | $46,852 | $51,916 |
| AL | $58,240 | $46,469 | $51,650 |
| AZ | $63,740 | $52,204 | $51,634 |
| KS | $58,510 | $46,216 | $51,372 |
| MI | $60,350 | $48,357 | $51,343 |
| HI | $70,190 | $54,317 | $50,012 |
| ME | $60,930 | $48,345 | $49,790 |
| WV | $54,860 | $44,611 | $49,693 |
| MS | $53,620 | $43,211 | $49,502 |
| NV | $55,670 | $46,911 | $48,372 |
| SD | $49,490 | $41,945 | $47,614 |
| KY | $52,790 | $42,867 | $47,383 |
| LA | $49,990 | $41,234 | $46,673 |
| ID | $51,370 | $41,586 | $45,487 |
| AR | $47,760 | $39,247 | $45,368 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $69,990, 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 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 $92,772.
- The price adjustment for this job 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 — Arkansas anchors the bottom at $45,368. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- These are distribution medians for property, real estate, and community association managers, with a national value of $69,990. 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 property, real estate, and community association 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 $92,772, which leads in Washington.
- Real-terms figures for property, real estate, and community association 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.