Entertainment And Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
SOC 11-9072 · 2024-2034
Plan, direct, or coordinate entertainment and recreational activities and operations of a recreational facility, including cruise ships and parks.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
What California expects of this job
- Typical pay in California
- $80,885per year
- Projected openings
- 10,170
- Projected change
- +11.8%
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Coordination
- Social Perceptiveness
- Reading Comprehension
- Service Orientation
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $106,417 | 50 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $92,830 | 680 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $89,621 | 210 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $86,158 | 40 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $86,138 | 90 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $85,956 | 890 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $85,904 | 150 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $85,199 | 940 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $83,276 | 190 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $82,186 | 1,050 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $80,791 | 180 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $80,699 | 100 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $80,182 | 1,900 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $80,180 | 130 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $79,823 | 120 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $79,660 | 1,150 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $79,640 | 110 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $79,507 | 60 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $78,886 | 1,140 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $78,828 | 3,620 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $76,849 | 260 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $76,625 | 100 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $75,474 | 50 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $74,109 | 160 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $73,355 | 250 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $67,183 | 60 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $58,505 | 30 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $58,505 | 120 |
What the pay actually ranges across
- The lowest-paid tenth earn under
- $48,165
- A quarter earn under
- $64,433
- Half earn under
- $80,885
- Three quarters earn under
- $113,909
- The highest-paid tenth earn over
- $168,653
A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| Occupation | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recreation Workers | $40,788 | 104,970 | +9.1% |
| Recreational Therapists | $100,918 | 1,870 | +15.8% |
| General and Operations Managers | $126,477 | 264,410 | +6.7% |
| Lodging Managers | $78,241 | 6,370 | +1.6% |
| Personal Service Managers, All Other | $79,146 | 3,800 | +9.1% |
| Conservation Scientists | $82,044 | 2,210 | +13.6% |
Programs that train for this job — 1
Hospitality Management Certificate of Completion
Madera Community College · Madera · $483