Health Services Manager Salary: What the Job Pays

Running a clinical department, a practice, a service line or a whole facility: budgets, staffing, quality and compliance.

Median

$123,860

Bottom 10%

$73,390

Top 10%

$224,340

Employed

597,080

What a Health Services Manager Earns

The national median is $123,860. Half of everyone in this occupation earns between $94,700 and $166,100, and the full published range runs from $73,390 at the tenth percentile to $224,340 at the ninetieth. The occupation employs 597,080 people.

A median is a midpoint, not an offer, and this occupation's range is wide for a specific reason. Organisation size, more than anything else. This one occupation code covers the practice manager of a three-physician clinic and the vice president of a hospital system, which is why the range runs so wide. Setting matters too: hospital and outpatient centre roles pay above nursing home and physician office roles for the same title.

So the number to plan around is not the median. It is the quartile you can realistically reach given the setting you would work in, which for this occupation is the variable that moves pay most.

How a DHSc Degree Affects Health Services Manager Pay

This is the single most common destination the DHSc programs themselves point at, and it is a large occupation with a wide pay spread. A doctorate is not required to enter it. What the degree tends to do is make you a credible candidate for the senior end of it, where postings start listing an advanced degree.

The Full Pay Range for Medical and Health Services Managers

Five percentiles and a mean, which is everything the wage survey publishes for this occupation nationally.

The mean runs $17,110 above the median, a 14% gap, so the upper half of this occupation stretches further than the lower half. The distance from the median to the 75th percentile is $42,240, and from the 75th to the 90th another $58,240.

Where Medical and Health Services Managers Jobs Are

The ten states with the most jobs, which is a different list from the ten that pay best. Together they hold 57% of the 597,080 jobs nationally.

Employment and pay do not line up. A state can hold a large share of the jobs and pay near the national median, and a small state can top the pay table on a few hundred posts. Read the two tables together: the first tells you what the work pays, the second tells you where the work is.

Medical and Health Services Managers Pay by State

Every state and territory that publishes a median for this occupation, highest first.

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. 51 states and territories publish a median for this occupation. A blank cell means BLS suppressed that figure.

State medians are not adjusted for cost of living here, and you should not read them as though they were. New York leads at $164,120 and Arkansas sits at $94,340, but a good deal of that gap is housing rather than spending power. Compare a state figure against local costs before treating it as a reason to move.

Compare Health Services Manager Pay With Other DHSc Degree Careers

Every occupation this site tracks, by median. The group column matters: a destination role is one the doctorate moves you into, and an origin role is work DHSc students were already doing before they enrolled, so its pay is not a return on the degree.

• All DHSc career salaries
• What a Health Services Manager actually does

Sources for Health Services Manager Salary Data

Pay figures come from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics extract behind this site. Projections are not in that dataset and are cited to O*NET separately.

• O*NET OnLine: Medical and Health Services Managers O*NET OnLine, U.S. Department of Labor, median pay and the 2024 to 2034 employment projection for this occupation.
• CAHME, the accreditor for healthcare management education Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, programmatic accreditation in health administration, which the DHSc sits outside.