Plant Manager
Runs a manufacturing facility's output, safety and people. Rises from the floor more often than from a business school.
- Pay band (est.)
- $121k–$197k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- site
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 40/100
- Hours burden
- 72/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play15th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge47th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand34th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay82th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body49th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy66th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit30th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility31th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance16th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Plant closure risk; you own every safety incident on site.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 72/100 and people intensity 82/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Industrial Production Managers (11-3051): median $121,440, 90th percentile $197,310. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +2.6%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.