Activities Director Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Closest available occupation (weak match): SOC 39-9032 Recreation Workers
Closest available, and a weak match: BLS has no activities director occupation.
This is recreation workers (39-9032), mostly front-line staff, so directors usually earn more.
The figure shown is the median for all recreation workers (SOC 39-9032): $36,560 a year ($17.58 an hour) in May 2025.
It is a labelled benchmark, not activities director pay.
Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed, workers employed directly by private households (such as caregivers hired by families), overtime pay and most bonuses.
What the BLS figure covers
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 39-9032 Recreation Workers, the closest available occupation, a weak match for this title, shown only as a benchmark.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for activities directors, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.