What a management analyst costs in the US
The wage BLS measured across 898,280 jobs, what an employer pays on top of it, the pay in every state, and which of the job's core tasks already show up in AI use.
Medians for the whole US. Your own cost depends on where you hire, the benefits you offer and the hours worked.
- Median wage
- $101,860
- Hourly wage
- $48.97
- Loaded per hour
- $60.99
- Middle half earns
- $77,950 to $133,370
- Jobs in the US
- 898,280
Wage × 1.2455 for benefits and payroll taxes, from BLS.
A management analyst in the US is paid a median $101,860 a year, $48.97 an hour, across 898,280 jobs. With benefits, a small employer pays about $126,870. Of its 10 core tasks, 4 showed up in Claude.ai conversations in May 2026, and in 2 of those Claude mostly did the task rather than assisting.
The work, task by task
The 10 core tasks O*NET lists for management analysts, most important first, and how each showed up in Claude.ai conversations in May 2026. The bar splits those conversations between Claude doing the task and Claude helping a person do it.
- 01Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.Claude.ai: 92% did the task, 8% helped · API: 97% did the task
- 02Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
- 03Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.Claude.ai: 35% did the task, 65% helped · API: 97% did the task
- 04Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.Claude.ai: 36% did the task, 64% helped · API: 92% did the task
- 05Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
- 06Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
- 07Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.
- 08Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements.
- 09Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
- 10Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports.Claude.ai: 54% did the task, 47% helped · API: 85% did the task
4 of 10 tasks appear in the Claude.ai sample of the Anthropic Economic Index for May 2026. A task without a row had too few conversations for Anthropic to publish, which is not the same as none. Shares are of all sampled Claude.ai conversations, so small figures are normal: 0.15% of every conversation that month was about this occupation.
Pay by state
The median annual wage in each state and DC, and the same wage fully loaded. Massachusetts pays the most, $134,720; Mississippi the least, $69,390.
| State | Median wage | Fully loaded | Middle half | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $108,040 | $134,560 | $82,120 to $138,590 | 4,900 |
| Alaska | $100,190 | $124,790 | $73,830 to $124,950 | 460 |
| Arizona | $93,310 | $116,220 | $72,570 to $123,470 | 17,190 |
| Arkansas | $72,950 | $90,860 | $57,390 to $97,520 | 6,250 |
| California | $101,460 | $126,370 | $77,440 to $134,750 | 137,280 |
| Colorado | $104,750 | $130,470 | $80,120 to $149,260 | 14,360 |
| Connecticut | $104,960 | $130,730 | $81,200 to $133,910 | 8,000 |
| Delaware | $99,480 | $123,900 | $76,460 to $128,720 | 4,120 |
| District of Columbia | $126,140 | $157,110 | $104,490 to $148,700 | 19,000 |
| Florida | $88,610 | $110,360 | $64,910 to $124,380 | 71,060 |
| Georgia | $99,600 | $124,050 | $77,840 to $132,010 | 38,390 |
| Hawaii | $101,750 | $126,730 | $82,210 to $132,470 | 2,920 |
| Idaho | $88,710 | $110,490 | $64,940 to $115,210 | 3,700 |
| Illinois | $104,270 | $129,870 | $81,230 to $135,020 | 45,820 |
| Indiana | $95,560 | $119,020 | $71,850 to $124,200 | 11,770 |
| Iowa | $85,530 | $106,530 | $64,070 to $106,990 | 4,150 |
| Kansas | $81,210 | $101,150 | $62,250 to $105,890 | 5,280 |
| Kentucky | $95,630 | $119,110 | $73,790 to $120,200 | 4,550 |
| Louisiana | $95,540 | $119,000 | $73,730 to $122,930 | 4,760 |
| Maine | $75,530 | $94,070 | $73,990 to $99,630 | 2,910 |
| Maryland | $121,680 | $151,550 | $92,870 to $144,680 | 19,170 |
| Massachusetts | $134,720 | $167,790 | $103,150 to $168,800 | 30,060 |
| Michigan | $93,640 | $116,630 | $72,240 to $123,730 | 13,010 |
| Minnesota | $100,790 | $125,530 | $78,080 to $127,860 | 20,700 |
| Mississippi | $69,390 | $86,430 | $52,870 to $97,470 | 3,160 |
| Missouri | $97,270 | $121,150 | $74,260 to $123,840 | 10,030 |
| Montana | $97,470 | $121,400 | $65,610 to $118,900 | 1,590 |
| Nebraska | $75,360 | $93,860 | $62,500 to $104,750 | 2,740 |
| Nevada | $81,600 | $101,630 | $64,920 to $104,280 | 4,550 |
| New Hampshire | $104,270 | $129,870 | $81,360 to $131,440 | 2,670 |
| New Jersey | $105,820 | $131,800 | $81,680 to $135,790 | 22,080 |
| New Mexico | $93,180 | $116,060 | $66,130 to $124,690 | 3,910 |
| New York | $112,250 | $139,810 | $85,670 to $165,460 | 69,150 |
| North Carolina | $98,560 | $122,760 | $73,320 to $131,360 | 22,200 |
| North Dakota | $90,220 | $112,370 | $61,490 to $99,500 | · |
| Ohio | $94,270 | $117,410 | $75,650 to $122,660 | 25,120 |
| Oklahoma | $99,420 | $123,830 | $73,780 to $126,080 | 5,760 |
| Oregon | $101,840 | $126,840 | $84,600 to $118,380 | 10,840 |
| Pennsylvania | $93,830 | $116,870 | $65,330 to $126,500 | 34,420 |
| Rhode Island | $99,640 | $124,100 | $76,600 to $127,070 | 4,100 |
| South Carolina | $100,660 | $125,370 | $73,750 to $142,700 | 12,340 |
| South Dakota | $83,620 | $104,150 | $66,120 to $108,890 | 2,980 |
| Tennessee | $99,260 | $123,630 | $78,940 to $129,990 | 13,700 |
| Texas | $101,400 | $126,290 | $78,440 to $131,210 | 50,990 |
| Utah | $83,530 | $104,040 | $63,690 to $103,310 | 5,670 |
| Vermont | $107,520 | $133,920 | $79,640 to $132,990 | 730 |
| Virginia | $117,580 | $146,450 | $83,260 to $152,730 | 59,620 |
| Washington | $109,170 | $135,970 | $84,570 to $150,020 | 24,760 |
| West Virginia | $97,470 | $121,400 | $75,030 to $121,680 | 1,740 |
| Wisconsin | $98,780 | $123,030 | $78,420 to $124,800 | 11,670 |
| Wyoming | $98,540 | $122,730 | $78,850 to $125,750 | 390 |
The same benefits ratio applies in every state, because BLS does not publish benefit costs by business size for each state. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile wage.
Where the numbers come from
Every figure is copied from a public file. The only arithmetic is the loaded cost: the wage times 1.2455.
- Wages
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, occupation 13-1111 (Management Analysts). Annual figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours, as BLS computes them, so they already include pay for paid leave.
- Fully loaded
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026 (2026 Q2), private businesses with 1 to 49 workers: $37.64 an hour in total compensation over $27.88 in wages plus $2.34 in paid leave gives 1.2455. Paid leave sits in the denominator because the annual wage already pays it.
- Tasks
- O*NET 31.0 core tasks for 13-1111.00, the ten most important by their importance rating. A few occupations list fewer core tasks.
- AI use
- Anthropic Economic Index, release of June 2026, conversations from May 2026. "Did the task" is Anthropic's automation share, where the user directs Claude to do the work; "helped" is augmentation, where the user works with Claude to learn, check or iterate.
- Not measured
- What a particular business pays, and whether an AI system can do a task well. The AI figures count conversations about a task, not jobs replaced.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. AI use data from the Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropic, under CC BY. Wage and benefit data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
What would an AI system cost for this work?
Put $126,870 beside the running cost of a system doing the tasks above, with the build counted in year one.
BLS wages May 2025 · O*NET 31.0 · Anthropic Economic Index