Building Management
Drawn directly from OPM FedScope (June 2026), this page tracks headcount, average salary, tenure, and pay comparison for the Building Management occupation series (code 1176).
The verdict
Building Management is a smaller, specialized federal occupation: 986 employees (0.1% of the federal civilian workforce) in the Business and Industry Group family. At an average salary of $122,043 it pays near the federal average, and headcount declined from the prior period.
- Headcount change
- -3.1%
- Pay change
- +0.2%
- Avg tenure
- 16.3 yrs
- Rank in family
- #11 of 25
FedScope read on Building Management (dense series)
On pay, the move between reporting periods was a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change. On length of service, this series shows a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement. Headcount moved down versus the prior period, a modest but trackable signal for anyone considering this specialized federal career path.
Code 11, the Business and Industry Group family, is where the federal government classifies Building Management alongside 24 related occupations. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Building Management postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Business and Industry Group family. Building Management makes up 1.2% of the Business and Industry Group family's 83,993 combined employees. Its average salary ranks in the bottom half (48th percentile) of pay among Business and Industry Group occupations.
Salary context · rich-pay series
How Building Management pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$122,043
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+4.0%
Where Building Management ranks on rich federal pay
Building Management earns more on average than 69% of federal occupation series (373 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Building Management sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Building Management.
Related Occupations in Business and Industry Group
10 other occupations in the same family
| Occupation | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contracting | 30,323 | $132,449 | 14.4 yrs |
| General Business and Industry | 25,675 | $123,489 | 14.9 yrs |
| Production Control | 5,015 | $99,508 | 14.6 yrs |
| Loan Specialist | 3,952 | $95,452 | 12.7 yrs |
| Realty | 3,282 | $112,506 | 15.3 yrs |
| Grants Management | 3,042 | $129,704 | 14.5 yrs |
| Purchasing | 2,225 | $59,039 | 13.1 yrs |
| Internal Revenue Officer | 2,183 | n/a | 14.7 yrs |
| Housing Management | 1,724 | $91,096 | 12.5 yrs |
| Commissary Management | 1,174 | n/a | 19.2 yrs |
Nationwide peers near this dense headcount
Two peer sets for Building Management outside the Business and Industry Group family, on headcount and average salary axes that vary across all OPM occupation series.
Similar dense headcount
Nearest employee counts in other occupation families (986 here).
Similar rich average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($122,043 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Building Management pay in context with the pay-rank chart above, then compare it with another occupation.
- Turn an average salary into a grade: the GS pay grade tables show how grades and steps map to pay.
- Browse the Business and Industry Group family occupations in the table above, or search current Building Management postings on USAJOBS.
OPM FedScope and Federal Workforce Data figures are federal civilian headcounts, average salaries, and length-of-service statistics - not job-quality scores, hiring advice, or a live vacancy listing. A larger or higher-paid agency is not a better employer.