What a property manager costs in the US
The wage BLS measured across 311,180 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
- $69,990
- Hourly wage
- $33.65
- Loaded per hour
- $41.91
- Middle half earns
- $50,720 to $97,910
- Jobs in the US
- 311,180
Wage × 1.2455 for benefits and payroll taxes, from BLS.
A property manager in the US is paid a median $69,990 a year, $33.65 an hour, across 311,180 jobs. With benefits, a small employer pays about $87,170. Of its 10 core tasks, 1 showed up in Claude.ai conversations in May 2026, and there Claude mostly assisted a person rather than doing it.
The work, task by task
The 10 core tasks O*NET lists for property, real estate, and community association managers, 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.
- 01Manage and oversee operations, maintenance, administration, and improvement of commercial, industrial, or residential properties.
- 02Direct collection of monthly assessments, rental fees, and deposits and payment of insurance premiums, mortgage, taxes, and incurred operating expenses.
- 03Plan, schedule, and coordinate general maintenance, major repairs, and remodeling or construction projects for commercial or residential properties.
- 04Prepare detailed budgets and financial reports for properties.Claude.ai: 41% did the task, 59% helped
- 05Act as liaisons between on-site managers or tenants and owners.
- 06Solicit and analyze bids from contractors for repairs, renovations, and maintenance.
- 07Meet with clients to negotiate management and service contracts, determine priorities, and discuss the financial and operational status of properties.
- 08Clean common areas, change light bulbs, and make minor property repairs.
- 09Inspect grounds, facilities, and equipment routinely to determine necessity of repairs or maintenance.API: 100% did the task, 0% helped
- 10Direct and coordinate the activities of staff and contract personnel and evaluate their performance.
1 of 10 tasks appear in the Claude.ai sample of the Anthropic Economic Index for May 2026, and 1 more only in its sample of API traffic, where businesses run Claude inside their own software. 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: 0.01% 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. Washington pays the most, $119,320; Arkansas the least, $47,760.
| State | Median wage | Fully loaded | Middle half | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $58,240 | $72,540 | $48,060 to $73,620 | 3,510 |
| Alaska | $76,800 | $95,650 | $55,240 to $107,040 | 450 |
| Arizona | $63,740 | $79,390 | $49,770 to $79,610 | 9,970 |
| Arkansas | $47,760 | $59,490 | $37,200 to $70,870 | 2,310 |
| California | $77,030 | $95,940 | $53,840 to $101,230 | 50,040 |
| Colorado | $100,080 | $124,650 | $80,790 to $155,460 | 2,230 |
| Connecticut | $73,940 | $92,090 | $59,570 to $100,570 | 2,760 |
| Delaware | $67,600 | $84,200 | $59,280 to $81,140 | 790 |
| District of Columbia | $94,080 | $117,180 | $76,580 to $127,530 | 2,040 |
| Florida | $70,810 | $88,190 | $52,460 to $95,190 | 30,160 |
| Georgia | $75,380 | $93,890 | $52,000 to $98,490 | 8,690 |
| Hawaii | $70,190 | $87,420 | $53,440 to $90,990 | 1,930 |
| Idaho | $51,370 | $63,980 | $43,280 to $70,040 | 1,680 |
| Illinois | $74,980 | $93,390 | $56,380 to $104,320 | 11,180 |
| Indiana | $60,600 | $75,480 | $47,410 to $79,320 | 4,670 |
| Iowa | $57,980 | $72,210 | $48,110 to $71,500 | 2,290 |
| Kansas | $58,510 | $72,870 | $45,550 to $77,210 | 2,810 |
| Kentucky | $52,790 | $65,750 | $46,930 to $62,940 | 2,670 |
| Louisiana | $49,990 | $62,260 | $37,430 to $71,330 | 3,060 |
| Maine | $60,930 | $75,890 | $49,920 to $83,630 | 960 |
| Maryland | $81,900 | $102,010 | $69,260 to $121,440 | 6,060 |
| Massachusetts | $103,410 | $128,800 | $77,190 to $130,000 | 7,320 |
| Michigan | $60,350 | $75,170 | $49,800 to $78,860 | 5,840 |
| Minnesota | $64,890 | $80,820 | $59,320 to $79,570 | 4,480 |
| Mississippi | $53,620 | $66,780 | $42,710 to $73,780 | 1,300 |
| Missouri | $61,640 | $76,770 | $47,640 to $82,390 | 4,740 |
| Montana | $58,050 | $72,300 | $47,550 to $64,460 | 1,130 |
| Nebraska | $61,610 | $76,740 | $45,440 to $78,940 | 1,530 |
| Nevada | $55,670 | $69,340 | $46,030 to $76,270 | 5,630 |
| New Hampshire | $75,500 | $94,040 | $60,530 to $95,580 | 730 |
| New Jersey | $82,850 | $103,190 | $67,320 to $110,430 | 7,110 |
| New Mexico | $62,230 | $77,510 | $47,290 to $81,380 | 1,410 |
| New York | $99,390 | $123,790 | $71,120 to $153,740 | 11,390 |
| North Carolina | $61,430 | $76,510 | $48,840 to $77,950 | 10,690 |
| North Dakota | $58,500 | $72,860 | $48,960 to $73,960 | 590 |
| Ohio | $59,050 | $73,550 | $48,550 to $80,380 | 9,960 |
| Oklahoma | $64,640 | $80,510 | $46,800 to $108,550 | 2,520 |
| Oregon | $78,060 | $97,220 | $64,340 to $104,990 | 3,190 |
| Pennsylvania | $65,680 | $81,800 | $57,560 to $98,450 | 9,370 |
| Rhode Island | $80,260 | $99,960 | $62,890 to $101,720 | 730 |
| South Carolina | $62,810 | $78,230 | $49,660 to $87,690 | 4,900 |
| South Dakota | $49,490 | $61,640 | $44,080 to $59,020 | 1,280 |
| Tennessee | $64,870 | $80,800 | $48,760 to $81,700 | 4,310 |
| Texas | $61,320 | $76,370 | $46,780 to $88,600 | 45,350 |
| Utah | $64,290 | $80,070 | $49,460 to $83,290 | 3,020 |
| Vermont | $62,810 | $78,230 | $54,800 to $93,220 | 560 |
| Virginia | $79,810 | $99,400 | $61,540 to $119,880 | 5,570 |
| Washington | $119,320 | $148,610 | $99,490 to $137,610 | 2,950 |
| West Virginia | $54,860 | $68,330 | $43,580 to $79,420 | 1,130 |
| Wisconsin | $77,730 | $96,810 | $62,140 to $102,490 | 1,560 |
| Wyoming | $60,060 | $74,800 | $40,120 to $79,380 | 640 |
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 11-9141 (Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers). 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 11-9141.00, 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 $87,170 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