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title: "Airline Revenue Management Analyst"
description: "Uses forecasting and optimization to decide how many seats an airline sells at each fare on each flight, balancing load against price."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/airline-revenue-management-analyst"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Airline Revenue Management Analyst

**Category:** Computer and Mathematical · **SOC code:** 15-2031 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 15-2031.00

Uses forecasting and optimization to decide how many seats an airline sells at each fare on each flight, balancing load against price.

Also advertised as: Revenue Management Analyst; Pricing Analyst; Inventory Analyst; Yield Management Analyst; Revenue Optimization Analyst.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $88,940 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $42.76/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $57,060 to $159,910, with the middle half between $68,360 and $125,990
- **Total US employment:** 108,510
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +11.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 7,500 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 17/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 108,510 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $57,060 |
| 25th | $68,360 |
| 50th (median) | $88,940 |
| 75th | $125,990 |
| 90th | $159,910 |
| Mean (average) | $99,730 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CO | $129,880 | $126,033 | 770 |
| VA | $129,460 | $128,046 | 6,980 |
| AL | $115,630 | $130,180 | 550 |
| NY | $108,610 | $100,638 | 5,890 |
| OH | $103,620 | $111,691 | 2,600 |
| ID | $103,600 | $108,488 | 500 |
| OR | $102,170 | $98,848 | 2,710 |
| CA | $102,100 | $92,215 | 10,620 |
| DE | $101,070 | $101,264 | 660 |
| HI | $100,600 | $91,495 | 120 |
| ME | $99,460 | $102,483 | 220 |
| NE | $98,300 | $109,097 | 330 |
| WA | $98,030 | $91,606 | 3,050 |
| MD | $97,410 | $92,808 | 4,710 |
| NC | $97,290 | $103,142 | 2,520 |

33 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 48 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/airline-revenue-management-analyst/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/airline-revenue-management-analyst.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 113,100 in the 2025–2035 base year to 126,600 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 13,500 jobs, or +11.9%. Much faster than average: 11.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 7,500 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Master's Degree | 42.9% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 33.3% |
| Doctoral Degree | 14.3% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 9.5% |

## What the work involves

- Monitor bookings against forecasts for assigned markets and flights
- Adjust seat availability by fare class to maximize revenue
- Set overbooking levels using no-show and cancellation data
- Analyze competitor fares and recommend pricing responses
- Tune parameters in revenue management forecasting and optimization systems
- Study demand around holidays, events and schedule changes
- Report revenue performance to network, sales and finance teams

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Mathematics — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Science — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Analysis — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Mathematics — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Engineering and Technology — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Production and Processing — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Design — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Mathematical Reasoning — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Investigative (I), Conventional (C), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| I — Investigative | 6.26 |
| C — Conventional | 5.76 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.72 |
| A — Artistic | 2.18 |
| S — Social | 2.02 |
| R — Realistic | 1.90 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| INTJ | 77.3 |
| ISTJ | 74.7 |
| ENTJ | 65.9 |
| ESTJ | 64.7 |
| ISTP | 59.1 |

Best-fitting types: INTJ, ISTJ. The bank also flags this occupation as introvert-friendly, meaning O\*NET work-context ratings put it low on public contact and performing for the public.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Operations Research Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/operations-research-analyst) — median $88,940
- [Data Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-scientist) — median $120,230
- [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) — median $101,860
- [Software Developer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/software-developer) — median $135,980
- [Database Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/database-architect) — median $139,500
- [Computer Systems Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-analyst) — median $105,850
- [Statistician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/statistician) — median $105,650
- [Computer and Information Research Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-and-information-research-scientist) — median $140,300
- [Business Intelligence Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst) — median $120,230
- [Computer Systems Engineers/Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-engineers-architect) — median $116,580

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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