Business Managers
Training and Education
| Fast Facts* | |
|---|---|
| Recommended Degree Level | Associate or Higher |
| Salary, Typical | $100,890 |
| Salary Range | |
| Number of Jobs, 2012 | 338,520 |
| Annual Job Growth Rate | 2.9% |
| Job Openings per Year (est.) | 24,940 |
If you want to pursue this career, you will benefit from having work experience in a related occupation. The percentage of employees with a 4 year degree is 55%. According to 2008 data 27% of business managers have attended college, but do not have a degree. Among workers, 17% have a high-school diploma, but no college education.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
7% of employees work on a part-time basis. 60% of the time, people working as business managers are their own boss.
A broad overview of the business management career. Created for the US Dept of Labor.
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Salaries by City
State City / Region Typical Salary Salary Range Job Count % of All Jobs AK Anchorage $92,450 920 0.53% AK Fairbanks $73,040 120 0.34% AL Auburn - Opelika $86,020 30 0.07% AL Birmingham - Hoover $87,230 760 0.16% AL Decatur $78,450 30 0.06% AL Dothan $78,380 50 0.09% AL Florence - Muscle Shoals $83,110 40 0.08% AL Huntsville $108,090 490 0.24% AL Mobile $73,400 240 0.14% AL Montgomery $89,540 310 0.20% AL Tuscaloosa $82,600 100 0.12% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $141,470 930 0.46% AR Fort Smith $86,940 90 0.08% AR Hot Springs N/A 30 0.10% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $69,820 540 0.16% AR Pine Bluff $100,900 30 0.10% AZ Flagstaff $77,700 90 0.16% AZ Lake Havasu City $ Kingman $78,920 70 0.16% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $95,590 3,540 0.20% AZ Prescott $74,530 70 0.14% AZ Tucson $105,690 800 0.23% AZ Yuma $105,690 290 0.53% CA Bakersfield - Delano $106,360 310 0.11% CA El Centro $105,690 270 0.52% CA Fresno $92,760 400 0.13% CA Hanford - Corcoran $120,370 40 0.11% CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $111,290 8,480 0.22% CA Madera - Chowchilla $99,110 60 0.16% CA Merced $91,780 60 0.09% CA Modesto $87,720 130 0.09% CA Napa $100,050 100 0.16% CA Oakland - Fremont - Hayward (Metro Area) $125,520 2,370 0.24% CA Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura $104,310 840 0.29% CA Redding $109,590 50 0.09% CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $103,280 1,680 0.15% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $97,890 2,190 0.27% CA Salinas $113,890 290 0.19% CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $114,970 3,830 0.30% CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $126,340 4,370 0.44% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $143,150 2,760 0.31% CA San Luis Obispo - Paso Robles $92,770 100 0.09% CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $120,090 3,570 0.25% CA Santa Barbara - Santa Maria - Goleta $97,220 310 0.19% CA Santa Cruz - Watsonville $105,420 160 0.19% CA Santa Rosa - Petaluma $116,370 330 0.19% CA Stockton $98,170 160 0.08% CA Vallejo - Fairfield $101,370 270 0.22% CA Visalia - Porterville $96,230 100 0.07% CA Yuba City $105,090 30 0.09% CO Boulder $111,520 320 0.20% CO Colorado Springs $95,700 670 0.28% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $109,730 3,890 0.32% CO Fort Collins - Loveland $104,060 250 0.19% CO Grand Junction $87,850 120 0.21% CO Greeley $90,890 130 0.16% CO Pueblo $100,070 100 0.19% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $110,260 1,450 0.35% CT Danbury $106,070 110 0.17% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $109,990 2,630 0.48% CT New Haven $93,920 510 0.19% CT Norwich - New London $86,200 260 0.20% CT Waterbury $94,690 50 0.08% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $126,240 30,140 1.29% DE Dover $101,860 90 0.16% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $135,330 910 0.28% FL Cape Coral - Fort Myers $79,310 180 0.09% FL Crestview - Fort Walton Beach - Destin $81,820 150 0.21% FL Deltona - Daytona Beach - Ormond Beach $71,850 120 0.08% FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $90,970 920 0.13% FL Gainesville $90,110 100 0.09% FL Jacksonville $98,180 920 0.16% FL Lakeland - Winter Haven $80,520 150 0.08% FL Miami - Miami Beach - Kendall (Metro Area) $92,510 2,200 0.22% FL Naples - Marco Island $84,900 90 0.08% FL North Port - Bradenton - Sarasota $63,980 250 0.10% FL Ocala $80,550 40 0.04% FL Orlando - Kissimmee - Sanford $93,950 1,600 0.16% FL Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville $106,370 250 0.13% FL Panama City - Lynn Haven - Panama City Beach $79,880 70 0.10% FL Pensacola - Ferry Pass - Brent $83,840 210 0.14% FL Port St. Lucie $85,200 70 0.05% FL Sebastian - Vero Beach $68,010 80 0.17% FL Tallahassee $81,410 440 0.28% FL Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater $92,930 N/A N/A FL West Palm Beach - Boca Raton - Boynton Beach (Metro Area) $79,850 580 0.12% GA Albany $66,600 40 0.07% GA Athens - Clarke County $108,360 60 0.08% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $103,830 5,020 0.22% GA Augusta - Richmond County $117,660 320 0.16% GA Brunswick N/A 210 0.57% GA Gainesville $85,830 30 0.05% GA Macon $69,090 100 0.10% GA Savannah $99,740 150 0.10% GA Warner Robins $98,200 90 0.17% HI Honolulu $88,960 2,040 0.47% IA Ames $95,240 60 0.15% IA Cedar Rapids $77,490 270 0.19% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $87,630 260 0.15% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $90,940 850 0.26% IA Dubuque $74,840 70 0.12% IA Iowa City $68,340 280 0.33% IA Sioux City $105,790 30 0.05% IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $68,600 150 0.17% ID Boise City - Nampa $81,520 450 0.17% ID Coeur d'Alene, ID $59,540 40 0.08% ID Idaho Falls $65,030 60 0.12% ID Lewiston $53,450 30 0.14% IL Bloomington - Normal $90,000 N/A N/A IL Champaign - Urbana $92,870 N/A N/A IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $89,770 23,220 0.64% IL Danville $71,040 60 0.22% IL Decatur $58,270 60 0.12% IL Kankakee - Bradley $47,020 150 0.36% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $97,470 3,370 0.91% IL Peoria $95,470 1,290 0.72% IL Rockford $73,700 290 0.20% IL Springfield $76,530 350 0.32% IN Anderson $45,610 100 0.25% IN Bloomington $80,810 360 0.48% IN Columbus $93,190 110 0.24% IN Elkhart - Goshen $60,230 90 0.08% IN Evansville $74,730 460 0.27% IN Fort Wayne $61,070 400 0.20% IN Gary (Metro Area) $69,890 440 0.17% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $59,290 4,840 0.54% IN Kokomo $52,710 90 0.22% IN Lafayette $61,960 260 0.30% IN Michigan City - La Porte $45,180 140 0.35% IN Muncie $57,620 80 0.18% IN South Bend - Mishawaka $61,600 510 0.41% IN Terre Haute $48,170 110 0.16% KS Lawrence $56,330 120 0.27% KS Manhattan $79,160 70 0.14% KS Topeka $73,090 240 0.22% KS Wichita $82,560 330 0.12% KY Bowling Green $69,950 N/A N/A KY Elizabethtown $87,280 130 0.29% KY Lexington - Fayette $85,900 570 0.23% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $77,990 1,630 0.27% KY Owensboro $65,120 60 0.11% LA Alexandria $69,410 130 0.21% LA Baton Rouge $75,080 1,200 0.33% LA Houma - Bayou Cane - Thibodaux $74,140 180 0.19% LA Lafayette $75,630 340 0.22% LA Lake Charles $69,610 90 0.11% LA Monroe $59,320 110 0.15% LA New Orleans - Metairie - Kenner $83,810 1,410 0.27% LA Shreveport - Bossier City $72,560 370 0.21% MA Barnstable Town $85,250 40 0.04% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $107,010 2,890 0.17% MA Brockton - Bridgewater - Easton (Metro Area) $67,110 90 0.10% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $104,750 90 0.06% MA Haverhill - North Andover - Amesbury (Metro Area) $101,550 100 0.12% MA Lawrence - Methuen - Salem (Metro Area) $110,980 220 0.38% MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $111,920 70 0.06% MA Peabody (Metro Area) $112,900 220 0.22% MA Springfield $85,860 300 0.10% MA Worcester $83,830 100 0.04% MD Baltimore - Towson $108,710 4,660 0.37% MD Bethesda - Rockville - Frederick (Metro Area) $122,750 3,080 0.55% MD Cumberland $50,350 30 0.08% MD Hagerstown - Martinsburg $89,020 300 0.31% MD Salisbury $70,290 40 0.08% ME Bangor $71,330 100 0.16% ME Lewiston - Auburn $77,660 40 0.08% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $86,390 320 0.16% MI Ann Arbor $99,740 370 0.19% MI Battle Creek $80,090 140 0.27% MI Detroit - Livonia - Dearborn (Metro Area) $94,530 2,410 0.35% MI Flint $61,000 380 0.30% MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $86,870 1,110 0.29% MI Holland - Grand Haven $75,010 320 0.31% MI Jackson $71,370 170 0.33% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $79,070 390 0.30% MI Lansing - East Lansing $91,620 800 0.41% MI Monroe $71,170 90 0.24% MI Muskegon - Norton Shores $69,650 80 0.14% MI Niles - Benton Harbor $85,470 120 0.21% MI Saginaw - Saginaw Township North $83,730 170 0.20% MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $91,440 2,970 0.28% MN Duluth $79,830 350 0.29% MN Mankato - North Mankato $85,120 110 0.22% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $103,110 10,700 0.61% MN Rochester $98,220 320 0.32% MN St. Cloud $78,020 230 0.24% MO Columbia $49,780 90 0.11% MO Jefferson City $51,140 650 0.93% MO Joplin $74,130 100 0.14% MO Kansas City $96,700 2,860 0.30% MO Springfield $63,040 200 0.11% MO St. Joseph $52,990 40 0.08% MO St. Louis $97,920 3,330 0.26% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $100,900 70 0.07% MS Jackson $99,860 140 0.06% MT Billings $68,790 140 0.17% MT Great Falls $68,680 50 0.15% MT Missoula $68,360 60 0.11% NC Asheville $81,640 160 0.10% NC Burlington $75,820 40 0.07% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $110,330 2,820 0.33% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $116,220 1,040 0.38% NC Fayetteville $99,650 240 0.19% NC Goldsboro $80,160 30 0.08% NC Greensboro - High Point $100,820 650 0.19% NC Greenville $75,440 90 0.12% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $77,820 160 0.11% NC Jacksonville $96,690 50 0.10% NC Raleigh - Cary $101,030 1,340 0.26% NC Rocky Mount $65,130 N/A N/A NC Wilmington $86,780 200 0.15% NC Winston - Salem $107,820 420 0.21% ND Bismarck $59,470 270 0.42% ND Fargo $72,330 230 0.18% ND Grand Forks $84,530 130 0.26% NE Lincoln $72,490 160 0.10% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $111,560 470 0.11% NH Manchester $103,620 740 0.73% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $131,530 770 0.59% NH Portsmouth $123,170 380 0.69% NH Rochester - Dover $93,620 350 0.65% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $101,910 470 0.35% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $103,490 1,520 0.31% NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $111,410 4,080 0.42% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $110,510 5,110 0.54% NJ Ocean City $95,590 80 0.22% NJ Trenton - Ewing $112,440 1,730 0.80% NJ Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton $98,740 110 0.18% NM Albuquerque $78,780 1,300 0.36% NM Farmington $55,940 130 0.27% NM Las Cruces $75,770 550 0.83% NM Santa Fe $56,970 380 0.66% NV Carson City $88,380 210 0.80% NV Las Vegas - Paradise $93,630 3,050 0.37% NV Reno - Sparks $89,850 730 0.39% NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $87,600 1,030 0.24% NY Binghamton $72,810 110 0.10% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $89,130 810 0.15% NY Elmira $61,260 40 0.10% NY Glens Falls $65,960 60 0.11% NY Ithaca $62,620 60 0.12% NY Kingston $58,870 80 0.14% NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $110,060 1,500 0.12% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $120,060 15,230 0.30% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $78,320 300 0.12% NY Rochester $84,910 730 0.15% NY Syracuse $77,710 410 0.14% NY Utica - Rome $69,220 130 0.10% OH Akron $89,700 1,010 0.32% OH Canton - Massillon $62,400 180 0.11% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $104,800 2,870 0.29% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $92,880 2,240 0.23% OH Columbus $88,660 2,180 0.24% OH Dayton $99,240 830 0.23% OH Lima $80,130 40 0.09% OH Mansfield $77,080 60 0.12% OH Sandusky $102,280 50 0.12% OH Springfield $77,300 N/A N/A OH Steubenville - Weirton $62,330 40 0.10% OH Toledo $77,980 320 0.11% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $71,740 190 0.09% OK Lawton $83,680 40 0.10% OK Oklahoma City $92,120 940 0.16% OK Tulsa $88,740 360 0.09% OR Bend $60,670 110 0.18% OR Corvallis $85,160 100 0.31% OR Eugene - Springfield $81,360 510 0.38% OR Medford $73,890 190 0.26% OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $86,350 4,000 0.40% OR Salem $77,240 710 0.50% PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $103,180 510 0.15% PA Erie $92,510 60 0.04% PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $101,020 660 0.21% PA Johnstown $75,690 N/A N/A PA Lancaster $61,230 60 0.03% PA Lebanon $95,470 40 0.07% PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $106,140 3,290 0.18% PA Pittsburgh $101,280 1,360 0.12% PA Reading N/A 180 0.11% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $90,920 140 0.05% PA York - Hanover $108,870 130 0.07% PR Aguadilla - Isabela - San Sebastian $31,770 110 0.26% PR Fajardo $58,110 60 0.47% PR Guayama $70,320 80 0.64% PR Mayaguez $37,050 60 0.21% PR Ponce $39,920 220 0.41% PR San German - Cabo Rojo $31,480 40 0.21% PR San Juan - Caguas - Guaynabo $56,250 6,160 0.84% PR Yauco $25,940 40 0.35% RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $101,490 910 0.17% SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $81,830 480 0.17% SC Columbia $74,370 350 0.10% SC Florence $86,990 30 0.04% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $87,510 100 0.03% SC Spartanburg $76,490 30 0.03% SD Rapid City $85,330 40 0.06% SD Sioux Falls $99,120 80 0.06% TN Chattanooga $76,680 560 0.25% TN Clarksville $61,620 140 0.18% TN Cleveland $76,920 40 0.12% TN Jackson $55,710 50 0.08% TN Johnson City $48,140 80 0.10% TN Kingsport - Bristol - Bristol $104,530 180 0.16% TN Knoxville $87,650 670 0.20% TN Memphis $89,780 1,050 0.18% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $76,250 1,600 0.21% TX Abilene $83,020 60 0.09% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $106,360 900 0.11% TX Brownsville - Harlingen $105,690 260 0.21% TX College Station - Bryan $67,170 30 0.04% TX Corpus Christi $98,500 140 0.08% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $112,490 4,060 0.19% TX El Paso $105,690 650 0.24% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $91,890 1,330 0.15% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $119,930 4,510 0.17% TX Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood $93,680 90 0.07% TX Laredo $105,690 420 0.47% TX Longview $79,000 50 0.05% TX Lubbock $62,930 80 0.06% TX McAllen - Edinburg - Mission $105,690 380 0.17% TX Midland $92,040 70 0.09% TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $102,920 1,470 0.17% TX Victoria $65,020 70 0.13% TX Waco $73,320 110 0.11% UT Logan N/A 170 0.35% UT Ogden - Clearfield $95,980 330 0.17% UT Provo - Orem $77,440 470 0.27% UT Salt Lake City $90,980 1,020 0.16% VA Blacksburg - Christiansburg - Radford $63,740 60 0.10% VA Charlottesville $99,110 240 0.25% VA Danville $59,750 40 0.11% VA Harrisonburg $88,910 40 0.07% VA Lynchburg $75,040 70 0.08% VA Richmond $100,190 1,350 0.23% VA Roanoke $82,070 260 0.17% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $105,000 1,740 0.24% VA Winchester N/A 70 0.14% VT Burlington - South Burlington N/A 320 0.28% WA Bellingham $94,740 300 0.39% WA Bremerton - Silverdale $107,680 200 0.25% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $131,280 340 0.34% WA Mount Vernon - Anacortes $90,870 40 0.10% WA Olympia $78,430 430 0.46% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $106,150 4,430 0.31% WA Spokane $88,110 380 0.19% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $101,780 510 0.20% WA Wenatchee - East Wenatchee $65,630 40 0.12% WA Yakima $85,980 50 0.07% WI Appleton $65,460 150 0.13% WI Eau Claire $77,750 110 0.14% WI Fond du Lac $64,010 50 0.13% WI Green Bay $77,580 430 0.26% WI Janesville $78,790 80 0.13% WI La Crosse $75,700 120 0.17% WI Madison $88,420 940 0.28% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $93,100 2,410 0.30% WI Oshkosh - Neenah $78,800 200 0.23% WI Racine $72,990 70 0.10% WI Sheboygan $83,100 80 0.14% WI Wausau $71,010 120 0.19% WV Charleston $57,900 340 0.23% WV Huntington - Ashland $75,410 100 0.09% WV Morgantown $83,590 100 0.16% WV Parkersburg - Marietta - Vienna $98,190 80 0.11% WV Wheeling $62,640 80 0.13% WY Casper $85,540 70 0.17% WY Cheyenne $99,210 300 0.69%
Area Job Conditions
Jobs for this occupation are most common in Bloomington (Illinois), Champaign (Illinois), and Decatur (Illinois), but are rarer in York (Pennsylvania), Tyler (Texas), and Longview (Texas).
Business managers are paid comparatively more in San Jose (California), Detroit (Michigan), and San Francisco (California) and comparatively less in Johnson City (Tennessee), Muncie (Indiana), and Morristown (Tennessee).