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title: "Community Land Trust Director"
description: "Runs a nonprofit that owns land permanently for the community and keeps homes on it affordable for each new owner who buys."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/community-land-trust-director"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Community Land Trust Director

**Category:** Management · **SOC code:** 11-9151 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 11-9151.00

Runs a nonprofit that owns land permanently for the community and keeps homes on it affordable for each new owner who buys.

Also advertised as: Community Land Trust Executive Director; CLT Director; Land Trust Housing Director; Shared Equity Homeownership Program Manager; CLT Program Manager.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $80,390 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $38.65/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $53,150 to $132,260, with the middle half between $64,290 and $103,200
- **Total US employment:** 209,330
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +7.2% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 18,500 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 37/100 — 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 209,330 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $53,150 |
| 25th | $64,290 |
| 50th (median) | $80,390 |
| 75th | $103,200 |
| 90th | $132,260 |
| Mean (average) | $88,880 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $106,700 | $97,087 | 640 |
| WA | $103,000 | $96,250 | 3,650 |
| AK | $98,370 | $96,103 | 830 |
| CO | $97,440 | $94,554 | 2,800 |
| NY | $95,980 | $88,935 | 19,340 |
| NJ | $95,290 | $87,579 | 5,530 |
| VA | $94,970 | $93,933 | 3,300 |
| TN | $88,240 | $96,049 | 2,770 |
| MD | $87,450 | $83,318 | 4,300 |
| OR | $87,010 | $84,181 | 3,390 |
| SD | $86,870 | $98,063 | 450 |
| ND | $86,630 | $97,382 | 510 |
| MI | $85,500 | $88,862 | 6,320 |
| MN | $84,220 | $85,398 | 5,430 |
| CA | $83,210 | $75,154 | 33,510 |

38 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 53 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/community-land-trust-director/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/community-land-trust-director.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 231,000 in the 2025–2035 base year to 247,700 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 16,600 jobs, or +7.2%. Much faster than average: 7.2% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 18,500 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:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** Less than 5 years.
- **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 |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 50.4% |
| Master's Degree | 23.9% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 8.2% |
| Post-Master's Certificate | 8.1% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 7.2% |
| Some College Courses | 2.2% |

## What the work involves

- Raise funds from public programs, foundations and lenders
- Acquire land and buildings for permanent affordability
- Oversee construction or renovation of trust homes
- Manage ground leases and resale formulas
- Guide buyers through counseling and mortgage approval
- Support homeowners facing financial trouble
- Lead a board of residents and community members
- Advocate for local affordable housing policy

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.6 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.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Management of Personnel Resources — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Psychology — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Personnel and Human Resources — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Expression — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 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 Enterprising (E), Social (S), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 6.97 |
| S — Social | 5.71 |
| C — Conventional | 4.68 |
| A — Artistic | 2.43 |
| I — Investigative | 2.17 |
| R — Realistic | 1.00 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ESFJ | 79.7 |
| ENFJ | 76.3 |
| ESFP | 71.7 |
| ESTJ | 63.8 |
| ENFP | 60.5 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ, ENFJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Social and Community Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/social-and-community-service-manager) — median $80,390
- [School Social Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/school-social-worker) — median $59,550
- [Rehabilitation Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/rehabilitation-counselor) — median $46,850
- [Community Health Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/community-health-worker) — median $51,850
- [Healthcare Social Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/healthcare-social-worker) — median $67,880
- [Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mental-health-and-substance-abuse-social-worker) — median $60,280
- [Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselor and Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/educational-guidance-and-career-counselor-and-advisor) — median $64,330
- [Social and Human Service Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/social-and-human-service-assistant) — median $45,930
- [Health Education Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-education-specialist) — median $64,070
- [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager) — median $149,280

## 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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