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Editorial Directors

SOC 11-9191

Set editorial standards and strategy for a media company or brand.

The job
Median pay
$78k
$57k to $106k typical range
BLS figure for Editors
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-1.1% projected
BLS figure for Editors
Openings a year
8k
BLS figure for Editors
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
9/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
42nd pct
More exposed than 42% of occupations · modeled estimate
Future-proof
47/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
New York16,8001.72.9×$101k
California14,8300.81.4×$98k
Texas6,4600.50.8×$46k
Illinois4,5600.71.3×$76k
Florida3,7900.40.7×$74k
Washington DC3,3104.78.0×$84k
Pennsylvania3,2400.50.9×$63k
Massachusetts3,1000.91.4×$83k
Virginia2,7200.71.1×$81k
New Jersey2,1200.50.8×$82k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Minnesota1,9700.71.1×$63k
Georgia1,9200.40.7×$77k
North Carolina1,8700.40.6×$74k
Washington1,8600.50.9×$78k
Maryland1,8500.71.1×$76k
Colorado1,8300.61.1×$78k
Ohio1,8000.30.6×$72k
Michigan1,6900.40.7×$63k
Wisconsin1,5100.50.9×$64k
Tennessee1,3900.40.7×$60k
Oregon1,1100.61.0×$72k
Connecticut1,0500.61.1×$86k
Nevada9720.61.1×$73k~
Iowa9000.61.0×$57k
Missouri8800.30.5×$62k
Indiana8300.30.4×$56k
Arizona8200.30.4×$63k
Utah5900.30.6×$65k
Alabama5300.30.4×$63k
Kansas5000.30.6×$62k
Oklahoma5000.30.5×$51k
South Carolina5000.20.4×$62k
Kentucky4900.20.4×$59k
Nebraska3600.40.6×$46k
Rhode Island3400.71.1×$78k
Louisiana3300.20.3×$59k
Maine3000.50.8×$50k
Mississippi2900.20.4×$54k
Arkansas2600.20.3×$50k
West Virginia2600.40.6×$57k
New Hampshire2500.40.6×$67k
Vermont2400.81.3×$67k
Idaho2300.30.5×$61k~
New Mexico2300.30.5×$64k
Montana2000.40.7×$62k
North Dakota2000.50.8×$61k
Delaware1700.40.6×$75k
South Dakota1400.30.5×$57k
Wyoming1100.40.7×$47k
Hawaii1000.20.3×$55k
Alaska600.20.3×$64k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ16,600 jobs · $102k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA8,830 jobs · $100k median
  3. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV5,470 jobs · $85k median
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,520 jobs · $80k median
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH2,480 jobs · $86k median
  6. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA2,040 jobs · $103k median
  7. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,930 jobs · $29k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,690 jobs · $75k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Editors (SOC 27-3041), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.