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.

The job this trains for

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

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.

The job this trains for	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%

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