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Lodging Managers · SOC 11-9081

Lodging Managers Salary in the Buffalo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area

Figures describe the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Buffalo city limits.

Median annual wage$74,730
Median hourly wage$35.93

Lodging Managers in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area earned a median of $74,730 per year ($35.93 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $37,560 at the 10th percentile to $114,600 at the 90th. BLS estimates 150 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Lodging Managers in the Buffalo metro area earn more than $74,730 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $58,690 and $94,500.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$37,560$58,690$74,730$94,500$114,600
Hourly$18.06$28.22$35.93$45.43$55.10

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Buffalo metro areathis metro area
    $74,730
  • New Yorkstate (NY)
    $79,460
  • United Statesnational
    $69,250

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −6% vs New York overall and +8% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$44,240$72,570$100,900$129,230San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $44,240Canton-Massillon, OH — $44,580Lubbock, TX — $45,980Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $46,990Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $47,210Mansfield, OH — $47,300Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $47,720College Station-Bryan, TX — $47,720Corpus Christi, TX — $47,760Toledo, OH — $48,700Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $48,750Youngstown-Warren, OH — $49,310Sandusky, OH — $49,720Fort Smith, AR-OK — $49,990Killeen-Temple, TX — $49,990Akron, OH — $50,180Oklahoma City, OK — $51,150Lake Charles, LA — $51,990Cleveland, OH — $52,960Columbus, OH — $54,030Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $55,050Columbia, SC — $56,850St. Louis, MO-IL — $56,960Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $57,430Tulsa, OK — $57,460El Paso, TX — $58,000Bangor, ME — $58,120Saginaw, MI — $58,140Charlottesville, VA — $58,930Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $59,450Tallahassee, FL — $59,450Ann Arbor, MI — $59,740Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $59,850Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $59,880Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $59,940Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $60,070Traverse City, MI — $60,170Fayetteville, NC — $60,360Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $60,490Cheyenne, WY — $60,690Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $60,740Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $60,840Pittsburgh, PA — $60,920Lancaster, PA — $61,010St. George, UT — $61,010Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $61,050Lexington-Fayette, KY — $61,100Helena, MT — $61,140Waco, TX — $61,170Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $61,210Jacksonville, FL — $61,660Rapid City, SD — $61,670Great Falls, MT — $61,760Baton Rouge, LA — $61,890Columbus, GA-AL — $62,030Savannah, GA — $62,140Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $62,150Wilmington, NC — $62,180Missoula, MT — $62,190Portland-South Portland, ME — $62,400Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $62,490Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $62,580Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $62,580Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $62,650Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $62,680Knoxville, TN — $62,700Ocala, FL — $62,730Montgomery, AL — $62,750Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $63,050Gainesville, FL — $63,100Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $63,390Fargo, ND-MN — $63,450Auburn-Opelika, AL — $63,750Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $63,930Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $64,060San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $64,210Green Bay, WI — $64,470Bismarck, ND — $64,520Port St. Lucie, FL — $64,670Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $64,780Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $64,960Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $65,590Greensboro-High Point, NC — $65,610Birmingham, AL — $65,790Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $66,280Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $66,590Jackson, MS — $66,700Fresno, CA — $66,810Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $66,910Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $67,010South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $67,060Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $67,130New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $67,900Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $67,970Lincoln, NE — $67,990Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $68,310Huntsville, AL — $69,720Chattanooga, TN-GA — $69,740Omaha, NE-IA — $69,930Punta Gorda, FL — $70,200Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $70,650Salem, OR — $70,880Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $70,900North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $71,080Albuquerque, NM — $71,200Eugene-Springfield, OR — $71,590Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $71,620Bend, OR — $71,990Anchorage, AK — $72,160Kansas City, MO-KS — $72,490Raleigh-Cary, NC — $72,500Winston-Salem, NC — $72,800Longview, TX — $73,040Utica-Rome, NY — $73,440Asheville, NC — $73,490San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $73,610Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $73,640Bozeman, MT — $73,870Stockton-Lodi, CA — $73,880Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $74,000Richmond, VA — $74,680Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $74,730Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $74,760Billings, MT — $74,950Medford, OR — $74,990Reno, NV — $74,990Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $75,150Santa Fe, NM — $75,280Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $75,430Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $75,680Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $75,770Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $75,930Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $75,970Evansville, IN — $75,990Rochester, NY — $76,030Salinas, CA — $76,080Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $76,150Glens Falls, NY — $76,220Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $76,520Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $76,860Syracuse, NY — $76,860Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $76,940Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $76,990Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $77,030Watertown-Fort Drum, NY — $77,150Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $77,300Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $77,600Madison, WI — $77,720Ogden, UT — $77,890Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $77,900Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $78,000Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $78,610San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $78,800Tucson, AZ — $79,250Mobile, AL — $79,340Duluth, MN-WI — $79,410Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $79,410Colorado Springs, CO — $80,060Tuscaloosa, AL — $80,240Kingston, NY — $80,590Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $81,650Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $82,410Flagstaff, AZ — $82,840Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $82,890Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $83,830Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $85,160Naples-Marco Island, FL — $88,410San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $89,010Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $91,390Worcester, MA — $93,720New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $94,030San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $94,460Boulder, CO — $95,640Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $96,470Barnstable Town, MA — $97,390Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $97,860Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $98,300Napa, CA — $100,350Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $102,180Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $106,040Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $106,940Urban Honolulu, HI — $115,190Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $129,230

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Buffalo metro area has the 62nd-highest published median for this occupation among the 183 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in New York

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for lodging managers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Buffalo metro areathis page
    $74,730
  • New York metro area
    $94,030
  • Kingston metro area
    $80,590
  • Watertown metro area
    $77,150
  • Syracuse metro area
    $76,860
  • Glens Falls metro area
    $76,220
  • Rochester metro area
    $76,030

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

General and Operations Managers$103,280Financial Managers$164,230Computer and Information Systems Managers$172,650Medical and Health Services Managers$132,720Marketing Managers$144,390Sales Managers$163,090

Highest-paying metro areas for lodging managerss · Highest-paying occupations in Buffalo Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.