What Are Salary Ranges for Quality Control Production Managers?
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics collected pay information from 147,250 industrial production managers, including quality control specialists, during its national employment survey of May 2009. It concluded that the average yearly salary for the profession was $93,650, which translates to $45.03 per hour and $4,807 a month. Individuals amongst the lowest earners, the bottom 10 percent, earned an average wage of less than $51,290, while those amid the top 10 percent received an average in excess of $146,030.
- The BLS reports that the average wage level within management of companies and enterprises--the industry sector in which the largest number of industrial production managers are employed--was $109,330. Other sectors with large numbers of employers in the profession include plastics products manufacturing, printing and related support activities and pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing. The average wages within these sectors were $86,920, $90,870 and $104,820, respectively. Among the highest pay rates were offered by scientific research and development services--$125,070--and petroleum and coal products manufacturing--$119,630.
- Wage analysis website SalaryExpert.com surveyed pay levels for quality control managers in some major cities. It found that averages were highest in New York, Houston and Phoenix, with $123,622, $122,034 and $119,245, respectively. In contrast, Miami was listed at $85,865 and Orlando at $85,707. According to the BLS, at state level the highest average salaries across all industry sectors are available in Texas, New Jersey and Delaware, with averages of $114,090, $111,720 and $106,830, respectively, while Wisconsin was listed at just $82,550.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects to see negative job growth for industrial production managers over the decade from 2008 to 2018. It posits a decline in employment opportunities of around 8 percent, compared to an increase of between 7 and 13 percent over the same period for the country as a whole. This will be a knock-on effect of increased automation in the manufacturing industry and the higher numbers of imported goods. As such, salary levels for the occupation are unlikely to rise in the immediate future.