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title: "Medical and Health Services Manager"
description: "Plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar…"
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Medical and Health Services Manager

**Category:** Management · **SOC code:** 11-9111 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 11-9111.00

Plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations.

Also advertised as: Cancer Center Director; Clinical Director; Health Information Management Director (HIM Director); Health Information Manager (HIM Manager); Healthcare System Director; Medical Records Director; Medical Records Manager; Mental Health Program Manager.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $123,860 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $59.55/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $73,390 to $224,340, with the middle half between $94,700 and $166,100
- **Total US employment:** 597,080
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +23.2% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 62,100 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 31/100 — 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 597,080 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $73,390 |
| 25th | $94,700 |
| 50th (median) | $123,860 |
| 75th | $166,100 |
| 90th | $224,340 |
| Mean (average) | $140,970 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NY | $164,120 | $152,074 | 33,200 |
| DC | $155,140 | $141,163 | 2,010 |
| HI | $147,630 | $134,269 | 2,650 |
| NJ | $145,650 | $133,863 | 16,900 |
| WA | $145,290 | $135,769 | 7,490 |
| OR | $141,690 | $137,083 | 5,550 |
| CA | $141,480 | $127,782 | 75,090 |
| CO | $134,910 | $130,914 | 8,400 |
| DE | $134,820 | $135,079 | 1,560 |
| MA | $134,360 | $127,046 | 17,600 |
| AK | $132,240 | $129,192 | 1,640 |
| GA | $131,910 | $136,988 | 11,130 |
| MD | $131,810 | $125,582 | 17,030 |
| CT | $130,790 | $126,233 | 8,020 |
| NH | $130,410 | $125,196 | 2,460 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 616,200 in the 2024–2034 base year to 759,100 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 142,900 jobs, or +23.2%. Much faster than average: 23.2% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 62,100 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## 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 | 46.4% |
| Master's Degree | 21.4% |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 10.7% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 7.1% |
| High School Diploma | 3.6% |
| Some College Courses | 3.6% |

## What the work involves

- Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.
- Establish work schedules and assignments for staff, according to workload, space, and equipment availability.
- Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel.
- Manage change in integrated health care delivery systems, such as work restructuring, technological innovations, and shifts in the focus of care.
- Establish objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units managed.
- Prepare activity reports to inform management of the status and implementation plans of programs, services, and quality initiatives.
- Develop and maintain computerized record management systems to store and process data, such as personnel activities and information, and to produce reports.
- Develop and implement organizational policies and procedures for the facility or medical unit.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Speaking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.1 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
- Monitoring — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — 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.

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

### Knowledge areas

- Administration and Management — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Personnel and Human Resources — 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
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — 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 Enterprising (E), Conventional (C), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 5.95 |
| C — Conventional | 5.17 |
| S — Social | 4.40 |
| I — Investigative | 3.75 |
| R — Realistic | 2.05 |
| A — Artistic | 1.45 |

### 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 | 74.7 |
| ESTJ | 74.5 |
| ENTJ | 64.5 |
| ENFJ | 63.0 |
| ISFJ | 57.9 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ, ESTJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Health Informatics Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-informatics-specialist) — median $105,850
- [Health Education Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-education-specialist) — median $64,070
- [Clinical Nurse Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-nurse-specialist) — median $97,550
- [Social and Community Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/social-and-community-service-manager) — median $80,390
- [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary) — median $107,310
- [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) — median $101,860
- [Health Information Technologist and Medical Registrar](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-information-technologist-and-medical-registrar) — median $68,020
- [Preventive Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/preventive-medicine-physician) — median $265,930
- [Education and Childcare Administrator, Preschool and Daycare](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-and-childcare-administrator-preschool-and-daycare) — median $59,300
- [Emergency Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medicine-physician) — median $335,550

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 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, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **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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