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Management Analyst Workplace Records
Management analysts may investigate a process, recommend changes and support implementation without controlling the final decision. For an employment concern, explain which part of that sequence was yours. The client’s response to a recommendation and your employer’s treatment of you belong in related but distinct timelines, particularly when several managers oversee the assignment.
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A record map for your role
What to organize first
Scope and revisions
List the original process study, deliverable and authorized changes, marking the point at which expectations relevant to your concern shifted.
Decision authority
Identify who could accept recommendations or provide resources and distinguish their decisions from steps assigned to you.
Your agreement and review
Keep your own engagement or employment terms with the evaluation and response, leaving client interviews and internal studies in their approved systems.
Start with the work you actually do
Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.
O*NET classifies this occupation as Management Analysts (13-1111.00). Its description covers a typical occupation, not every workplace or individual job. It does not establish employee status, overtime eligibility or employer misconduct.
- Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.Source task 7276 · updated 08/2022
- Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.Source task 7278 · updated 08/2022
- Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.Source task 7277 · updated 08/2022
- Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.Source task 7282 · updated 08/2022
A reference point for your pay records
May 2025 wage estimates by state
Compare your pay records with published BLS estimates for Management Analysts (SOC 13-1111). These describe an occupation across employers. They are not a required pay rate, an overtime calculation, or evidence of discrimination or unpaid wages.
Select your work state to see its published pay range. No personal pay information is requested or sent.
The 25th and 75th percentiles mark the middle half of the estimated wage distribution; the median is its midpoint. Actual pay can differ with experience, employer, location and duties. Hourly and annual figures are shown as published, without converting one into the other.
All published state estimates for this occupation
| State | Hourly 25th | Hourly median | Hourly 75th | Annual median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | $39.48 | $51.94 | $66.63 | $108,040 |
| Alaska | $35.50 | $48.17 | $60.07 | $100,190 |
| Arizona | $34.89 | $44.86 | $59.36 | $93,310 |
| Arkansas | $27.59 | $35.07 | $46.88 | $72,950 |
| Connecticut | $39.04 | $50.46 | $64.38 | $104,960 |
| Delaware | $36.76 | $47.83 | $61.88 | $99,480 |
| Florida | $31.21 | $42.60 | $59.80 | $88,610 |
| Georgia | $37.42 | $47.89 | $63.47 | $99,600 |
| Hawaii | $39.53 | $48.92 | $63.69 | $101,750 |
| Idaho | $31.22 | $42.65 | $55.39 | $88,710 |
| Indiana | $34.54 | $45.94 | $59.71 | $95,560 |
| Iowa | $30.80 | $41.12 | $51.44 | $85,530 |
| Kansas | $29.93 | $39.04 | $50.91 | $81,210 |
| Kentucky | $35.48 | $45.98 | $57.79 | $95,630 |
| Louisiana | $35.45 | $45.94 | $59.10 | $95,540 |
| Maine | $35.57 | $36.31 | $47.90 | $75,530 |
| Michigan | $34.73 | $45.02 | $59.48 | $93,640 |
| Minnesota | $37.54 | $48.46 | $61.47 | $100,790 |
| Mississippi | $25.42 | $33.36 | $46.86 | $69,390 |
| Missouri | $35.70 | $46.77 | $59.54 | $97,270 |
| Montana | $31.54 | $46.86 | $57.16 | $97,470 |
| Nebraska | $30.05 | $36.23 | $50.36 | $75,360 |
| New Hampshire | $39.12 | $50.13 | $63.19 | $104,270 |
| New Mexico | $31.79 | $44.80 | $59.95 | $93,180 |
| New York | $41.19 | $53.96 | $79.55 | $112,250 |
| North Carolina | $35.25 | $47.38 | $63.15 | $98,560 |
| North Dakota | $29.56 | $43.38 | $47.84 | $90,220 |
| Ohio | $36.37 | $45.32 | $58.97 | $94,270 |
| Oklahoma | $35.47 | $47.80 | $60.62 | $99,420 |
| Pennsylvania | $31.41 | $45.11 | $60.82 | $93,830 |
| Rhode Island | $36.83 | $47.91 | $61.09 | $99,640 |
| South Dakota | $31.79 | $40.20 | $52.35 | $83,620 |
| Tennessee | $37.95 | $47.72 | $62.50 | $99,260 |
| Texas | $37.71 | $48.75 | $63.08 | $101,400 |
| Utah | $30.62 | $40.16 | $49.67 | $83,530 |
| Vermont | $38.29 | $51.69 | $63.94 | $107,520 |
| Virginia | $40.03 | $56.53 | $73.43 | $117,580 |
| West Virginia | $36.07 | $46.86 | $58.50 | $97,470 |
| Wisconsin | $37.70 | $47.49 | $60.00 | $98,780 |
| Wyoming | $37.91 | $47.37 | $60.46 | $98,540 |
“Not published” preserves unavailable or suppressed source cells. “Above reporting limit” preserves a top-coded source value without inventing a number. A missing state estimate does not establish service eligibility. The data describe wage and salary employment; they do not measure self-employment income.
Source: BLS May 2025 state workbook · OEWS tables · BLS technical notes. Use your own schedule, pay statement and compensation terms to identify the question you want reviewed.
Describe the study boundary
Identify the process you were assigned to examine, the promised deliverable and any limits on access to information. Note later changes to the scope or deadline and who approved them. If the concern involves an omitted finding, describe the instruction and your response without copying the underlying study. Separate what your analysis supported from what a stakeholder wanted the report to say.
Trace implementation and evaluation
Explain whether you only recommended a change or also managed its rollout. Record when the client accepted, rejected or revised the proposal and whether your performance targets changed with it. A project outcome may depend on staffing or decisions outside your authority. Use your own assignment terms and permitted feedback to clarify those dependencies rather than collecting client-wide performance data.
Preserve interview confidentiality
Do not add employee interview notes, confidential organizational charts or client financial data to a personal employment archive. Summarize the workplace instruction affecting you and identify sensitive records by type. A consulting title can cover different employment arrangements; retain your own agreement and identify who set your work, paid you and evaluated you without assuming the label resolves legal classification.
Choose your next step
Review the workplace retaliation guide, unpaid wages guide, or discrimination guide if those concerns fit your experience. A job title alone does not establish a claim.
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