West Virginia·Management Occupations·SOC 11-9199

Best Manager, All Other programs in West Virginia, ranked by enrollment

All managers not listed.

32 schools in West Virginia run programs that feed this job, graduating 10,047 people a year. The job pays a median of $124,940 in West Virginia across about 3,640 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledSite ManagerWind Site ManagerCompliance ManagerWind Plant ManagerCompliance DirectorDevelopment ManagerDevelopment DirectorEnvironmental Manager
Graduates / yr
10,047
in West Virginia
Median pay · West Virginia
$124,940
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
3,640
people employed
Schools
32
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
40%
across those schools
Median net price
$17,325
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in West Virginia that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services
CIP 52.02
Business Administration
4,876graduates / yr
24 schools · 3 specializations · 48.5% of pipeline
Grad earnings $43,506
Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services
CIP 52.01
Business/Commerce
1,624graduates / yr
16 schools · 1 specialization · 16.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $44,700
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting And Related Protective Services
CIP 43.03
Homeland Security
817graduates / yr
1 schools · 3 specializations · 8.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $46,281
Psychology
CIP 42.01
Psychology
619graduates / yr
14 schools · 1 specialization · 6.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $31,426
History
CIP 54.01
History
459graduates / yr
11 schools · 3 specializations · 4.5% of pipeline
Grad earnings $31,217
Psychology
CIP 42.27
Research and Experimental Psychology
417graduates / yr
3 schools · 4 specializations · 4.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $34,454
Social Sciences
CIP 45.10
Political Science and Government
222graduates / yr
11 schools · 2 specializations · 2.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $35,631
Social Sciences
CIP 45.11
Sociology
152graduates / yr
7 schools · 1 specialization · 1.5% of pipeline
Grad earnings $34,099
Social Sciences
CIP 45.04
Criminology
141graduates / yr
3 schools · 1 specialization · 1.4% of pipeline
Grad earnings $37,366
Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services
CIP 11.10
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
140graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 1.4% of pipeline
Grad earnings $48,185
Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services
CIP 52.07
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
127graduates / yr
3 schools · 2 specializations · 1.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $43,803
Public Administration And Social Service Professions
CIP 44.04
Public Administration
89graduates / yr
3 schools · 1 specialization · 0.9% of pipeline
Grad earnings $45,374
Social Sciences
CIP 45.09
International Relations and National Security Studies
67graduates / yr
2 schools · 3 specializations · 0.7% of pipeline
Grad earnings $37,878
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting And Related Protective Services
CIP 43.01
Criminal Justice and Corrections
54graduates / yr
6 schools · 2 specializations · 0.5% of pipeline
Grad earnings $37,408
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting And Related Protective Services
CIP 43.02
Fire Protection
54graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.5% of pipeline
Grad earnings $48,952
Social Sciences
CIP 45.07
Geography and Cartography
48graduates / yr
2 schools · 2 specializations · 0.4% of pipeline
Grad earnings $38,944
Psychology
CIP 42.28
Clinical
41graduates / yr
2 schools · 3 specializations · 0.4% of pipeline
Grad earnings $33,805
Social Sciences
CIP 45.06
Economics
40graduates / yr
6 schools · 2 specializations · 0.4% of pipeline
Grad earnings $51,725
Social Sciences
CIP 45.01
Social Sciences
24graduates / yr
3 schools · 1 specialization · 0.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $35,590
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.06
Systems Science and Theory
17graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.2% of pipeline
Grad earnings $35,840
Social Sciences
CIP 45.02
Anthropology
7graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $27,806
Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs
CIP 09.07
Radio
6graduates / yr
2 schools · 1 specialization · 0.1% of pipeline
Grad earnings $29,112
Natural Resources And Conservation
CIP 03.02
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy
4graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.0% of pipeline
Grad earnings $37,946
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
CIP 30.46
History and Political Science
2graduates / yr
1 schools · 1 specialization · 0.0% of pipeline
Grad earnings

42 programs in West Virginia that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in West Virginia (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own West Virginia page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
14,150
41.3%
24$43,506$25,000
21,624
16.2%
16$44,700$24,000
3724
7.2%
4$43,506$25,000
4619
6.2%
14$31,426$25,250
5471
4.7%
1$46,281$23,250
6412
4.1%
3$34,454$21,878
7323
3.2%
11$31,217$24,000
8279
2.8%
1$46,281$23,250
9216
2.1%
11$35,631$23,538
10152
1.5%
7$34,099$25,000
11141
1.4%
3$37,366$25,000
12140
1.4%
1$48,185$25,250
13114
1.1%
3$43,803$23,374
14111
1.1%
1$31,217$24,000
1589
0.9%
3$45,374$26,000
1667
0.7%
1$46,281$23,250
1754
0.5%
1$48,952$12,750
1850
0.5%
6$37,408$24,069
1933
0.3%
2$38,944$22,762
2031
0.3%
1$37,878$21,750
2126
0.3%
2$37,878$21,750
2225
0.2%
1$31,217$24,000
2324
0.2%
3$35,590$24,095
2423
0.2%
1$33,805$27,000
2523
0.2%
1$51,725$22,907
2617
0.2%
1$35,840$23,250
2717
0.2%
2$33,805$27,000
2817
0.2%
6$51,725$22,907
2915
0.1%
2$38,944$22,762
3013
0.1%
2$43,803$23,374
3110
0.1%
1$37,878$21,750
327
0.1%
1$27,806$23,000
336
0.1%
2$29,112$23,836
346
0.1%
2$35,631$23,538
354
0.0%
1$37,946$24,125
364
0.0%
1$37,408$24,069
372
0.0%
1
382
0.0%
1$34,454$21,878
392
0.0%
1$34,454$21,878
402
0.0%
1$43,506$25,000
411
0.0%
1$34,454$21,878
421
0.0%
1$33,805$27,000

Top 25 schools in West Virginia

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 20 of the 32 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1American Public University System
Charles Town, WV Private for-profit · 19 feeder programs
6,305Business Administration and Management, General$61,68757%$10,199
2West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV Public · 21 feeder programs
921Business/Commerce, General$42,29865%89%
3University of Charleston
Charleston, WV Private not-for-profit · 7 feeder programs
808Organizational Leadership$63,62346%$21,93962%
4Marshall University
Huntington, WV Public · 12 feeder programs
453Business/Commerce, General51%96%
5Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, WV Public · 7 feeder programs
166Business Administration and Management, General$41,76651%97%
6Fairmont State University
Fairmont, WV Public · 6 feeder programs
163Business Administration and Management, General$33,76744%99%
7West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Parkersburg, WV Public · 3 feeder programs
152Business/Commerce, General$33,5369%
8Glenville State University
Glenville, WV Public · 4 feeder programs
119Business Administration and Management, General$30,91634%
9Concord University
Athens, WV Public · 5 feeder programs
98Business Administration and Management, General$33,34839%93%
10West Liberty University
West Liberty, WV Public · 6 feeder programs
98Business Administration and Management, General$34,71360%97%
11West Virginia State University
Institute, WV Public · 7 feeder programs
97Business Administration and Management, General$43,70939%96%
12Salem University
Salem, WV Private for-profit · 1 feeder programs
95Business Administration and Management, General$45,83420%$14,845
13Wheeling University
Wheeling, WV Private not-for-profit · 3 feeder programs
77Business Administration and Management, General$38,21223%$18,04263%
14West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, WV Private not-for-profit · 6 feeder programs
62Business/Commerce, General$31,42457%$17,32593%
15Bluefield State University
Bluefield, WV Public · 2 feeder programs
57Business Administration and Management, General37%97%
16Davis & Elkins College
Elkins, WV Private not-for-profit · 6 feeder programs
41Psychology, General39%$19,28494%
17Potomac State College of West Virginia University
Keyser, WV Public · 2 feeder programs
41Business Administration and Management, General$49,63431%
18Pierpont Community and Technical College
Fairmont, WV Public · 1 feeder programs
33Business/Commerce, General$26,51742%
19Bethany College
Bethany, WV Private not-for-profit · 7 feeder programs
32Psychology, General$25,96347%$15,78359%
20Valley College - Martinsburg
Martinsburg, WV Private not-for-profit · 2 feeder programs
31Business Administration and Management, General$38,88666%$25,386
21West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Beckley, WV Public · 4 feeder programs
31Business/Commerce, General$42,29833%37%
22Blue Ridge Community and Technical College
Martinsburg, WV Public · 4 feeder programs
28Social Sciences, General32%
23Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College
Moorefield, WV Public · 1 feeder programs
28Business Administration and Management, General42%
24Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College
Logan, WV Public · 1 feeder programs
27Business Administration and Management, General29%
25New River Community and Technical College
Beaver, WV Public · 2 feeder programs
17Business Administration and Management, General36%

All 32 schools in West Virginia

Every school in West Virginia with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in West Virginia that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
American Public University SystemCharles TownPrivate for-profit6,30519
West Virginia UniversityMorgantownPublic92121
University of CharlestonCharlestonPrivate not-for-profit8087
Marshall UniversityHuntingtonPublic45312
Shepherd UniversityShepherdstownPublic1667
Fairmont State UniversityFairmontPublic1636
West Virginia University at ParkersburgParkersburgPublic1523
Glenville State UniversityGlenvillePublic1194
Concord UniversityAthensPublic985
West Liberty UniversityWest LibertyPublic986
West Virginia State UniversityInstitutePublic977
Salem UniversitySalemPrivate for-profit951
Wheeling UniversityWheelingPrivate not-for-profit773
West Virginia Wesleyan CollegeBuckhannonPrivate not-for-profit626
Bluefield State UniversityBluefieldPublic572

What managers, all other earn in West Virginia

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in West Virginia
$124,940
Mean annual
$131,360
Jobs in state
3,640
What the range looks like
10th pct$61,760Median$124,94090th pct$200,160
Versus the national median
-12.0%

U.S. median $141,900. West Virginia pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.30×

Concentrated here: West Virginia employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in West Virginia

Morgantown, WV
$131,180median
410 jobs
Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
$140,390median
120 jobs
Charleston, WV
$107,490median
Wheeling, WV-OH
$114,920median
220 jobs
Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
$104,630median
100 jobs
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
$107,420median
340 jobs
Beckley, WV
$98,080median
170 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+4.5%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
106,700
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
59,800
1,333,700 → 1,393,500
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Managers, All Other page.

How to become a Manager, All Other

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
Work experience needed
Less than 5 years

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

Reading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingSpeakingActive ListeningWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in West Virginia

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 25 majors mapped to Managers, All Other23 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 03.0204Environmental/Natural Resource Economics
  • 09.0702Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia
  • 11.1005Information Technology Project Management
  • 25.0101Library and Information Science
  • 25.0103Archives/Archival Administration
  • 30.0601Systems Science and Theory
  • 30.1202Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis
  • 30.3901Economics and Computer Science
  • 30.4001Economics and Foreign Language/Literature
  • 30.4201Geoarcheaology
  • 30.4501History and Language/Literature(no graduates reported)
  • 30.4601History and Political Science
  • 30.4701Linguistics and Anthropology
  • 30.5101Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  • 30.5201Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, General
  • 30.5202Digital Humanities
  • 30.5203Textual Studies(no graduates reported)
  • 39.0801Religious Institution Administration and Management
  • 42.0101Psychology, General
  • 42.2701Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics
  • 42.2702Comparative Psychology
  • 42.2703Developmental and Child Psychology
  • 42.2704Experimental Psychology
  • 42.2705Personality Psychology
  • 42.2706Behavioral Neuroscience

Common questions

Answers for people weighing managers, all other programs in West Virginia.

What degree do you need to become a Manager, All Other?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Business Administration and Management, General, which awarded 4,150 degrees in West Virginia in 2024-25, 41.3% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Manager, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 42 programs to this occupation. The largest are Business Administration, Business/Commerce, Homeland Security, Psychology, plus 20 more. Together they graduate about 10,047 people a year in West Virginia.

How much do managers, all other earn in West Virginia?+

The median is $124,940 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 12.0% below the U.S. median of $141,900. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for managers, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +4.5% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 106,700 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in West Virginia?+

32 institutions in West Virginia reported graduates from at least one of the 42 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do managers, all other work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Site Manager, Wind Site Manager, Compliance Manager, Wind Plant Manager, Compliance Director, Development Manager among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 11-9199.

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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