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title: "Hotel Asset Manager"
description: "Represents the owners of hotels, pushing the management company to raise profit and protect property value through budgets, capital plans and strategy."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/hotel-asset-manager"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Hotel Asset Manager

**Category:** Management · **SOC code:** 11-9141 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 11-9141.00

Represents the owners of hotels, pushing the management company to raise profit and protect property value through budgets, capital plans and strategy.

Also advertised as: Hospitality Asset Manager; Director of Asset Management; Lodging Asset Manager; Vice President of Asset Management.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $69,990 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $33.65/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $41,010 to $139,680, with the middle half between $50,720 and $97,910
- **Total US employment:** 311,180
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.7% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 36,900 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 44/100 — 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 311,180 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $41,010 |
| 25th | $50,720 |
| 50th (median) | $69,990 |
| 75th | $97,910 |
| 90th | $139,680 |
| Mean (average) | $83,710 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WA | $119,320 | $111,500 | 2,950 |
| MA | $103,410 | $97,781 | 7,320 |
| CO | $100,080 | $97,116 | 2,230 |
| NY | $99,390 | $92,095 | 11,390 |
| DC | $94,080 | $85,604 | 2,040 |
| NJ | $82,850 | $76,145 | 7,110 |
| MD | $81,900 | $78,030 | 6,060 |
| RI | $80,260 | $78,471 | 730 |
| VA | $79,810 | $78,939 | 5,570 |
| OR | $78,060 | $75,522 | 3,190 |
| WI | $77,730 | $82,608 | 1,560 |
| CA | $77,030 | $69,572 | 50,040 |
| AK | $76,800 | $75,030 | 450 |
| NH | $75,500 | $72,481 | 730 |
| GA | $75,380 | $78,282 | 8,690 |

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

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 460,400 in the 2025–2035 base year to 477,600 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 17,100 jobs, or +3.7%. About as fast as average: 3.7% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 36,900 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:** Short-term on-the-job training.

## What the work involves

- Review monthly hotel financial statements and performance against competitors
- Approve and challenge operating budgets prepared by management companies
- Plan and oversee capital projects and renovations
- Negotiate hotel management and franchise agreements
- Underwrite hotel acquisitions and dispositions
- Recommend pricing, staffing and cost changes to operators
- Report hotel performance and strategy to investors

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- 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
- Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.0 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.

- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Management of Financial Resources — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Management of Personnel Resources — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Economics and Accounting — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- 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
- Written Expression — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.8 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), Conventional (C), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 6.67 |
| C — Conventional | 5.32 |
| S — Social | 3.53 |
| I — Investigative | 3.30 |
| R — Realistic | 3.28 |
| A — Artistic | 1.69 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 85.7 |
| ESFJ | 78.7 |
| ENTJ | 69.7 |
| ISTJ | 65.6 |
| ESTP | 62.3 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/property-real-estate-and-community-association-manager) — median $69,990
- [Real Estate Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-agent) — median $52,830
- [Real Estate Broker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-broker) — median $73,220
- [Facilities Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/facilities-manager) — median $106,660
- [Appraiser and Assessor of Real Estate](https://nuecareer.com/careers/appraiser-and-assessor-of-real-estate) — median $67,960
- [Purchasing Agent, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-agent) — median $77,710
- [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) — median $105,770
- [Government Property Inspector and Investigator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/government-property-inspector-and-investigator) — median $80,730
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager) — median $148,270
- [Lodging Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lodging-manager) — median $69,250

## 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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