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Management & Entrepreneurship

National Career Cluster · the map of work

Management & Entrepreneurship is one of the 14 national career clusters — the U.S. Department of Education's map that divides the whole world of work into broad families, each crosswalked to occupations, education programs, and industries. This cluster spans 49 occupations across 5 sub-clusters, employing about 19,800,790 workers, with a median wage of $81,270.

What's in this cluster

A career cluster is a navigational grouping, not a measured score. The counts below come from the framework's official crosswalk; employment and pay are aggregated from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024) across the occupations in the cluster.

49 occupations
5 sub-clusters
19,800,790 workers (BLS)
$81,270 median pay
249 education programs

Across occupations with wage data, the middle range (25th–75th percentile of occupation medians) runs $55,290 – $109,840. This describes the cluster, not any one job or person.

Sub-clusters

The framework splits each cluster into sub-clusters — tighter families of related work. The count is the number of occupations the crosswalk places in each.

Sub-cluster Occupations
Leadership & Operations 32
Entrepreneurship & Small Business 22
Business Information Management 8
Regulation 5
Project Management 1

Largest occupations in this cluster

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 39 occupations in Management & Entrepreneurship. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria Facilities Managers Occupational Health and Safety Technicians Chefs and Head Cooks Office Machine Operators, Except Computer Occupational Health and Safety Specialists Industrial Production Managers General and Operations Managers Labor Relations Specialists Chief Executives Compliance Officers Word Processors and Typists Office Clerks, General Data Entry Keyers First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping Order Clerks Public Relations Specialists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
The largest occupations in this cluster with both an AI task-overlap score and a wage, plotted by task-overlap percentile (horizontal) and median-pay percentile (vertical). Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Occupations in this cluster with the most workers nationally (BLS OEWS, May 2024), each linked to its full profile. Employment and pay describe the occupation, not an individual.

Occupation Workers Median pay
General and Operations Managers 3,584,420 $102,950
Office Clerks, General 2,510,550 $43,630
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 1,737,820 $46,290
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 1,495,580 $66,140
Business Operations Specialists, All Other 1,128,200 $81,270
Project Management Specialists 1,006,160 $100,750
Human Resources Specialists 917,460 $72,910
Management Analysts 893,900 $101,190
Financial Managers 818,620 $161,700
Managers, All Other 630,980 $136,550
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 472,770 $74,260
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria 448,260 $36,450
Training and Development Specialists 436,610 $65,850
Compliance Officers 397,770 $78,420
Construction Managers 348,330 $106,980
Public Relations Specialists 280,590 $69,780
Administrative Services Managers 254,140 $108,390
Industrial Production Managers 234,380 $121,440
Human Resources Managers 215,520 $140,030
Chief Executives 211,850 $206,420
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other 195,890 $46,040
Chefs and Head Cooks 182,320 $60,990
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks 156,950 $55,290
Facilities Managers 141,090 $104,690
Data Entry Keyers 135,280 $39,850
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 128,430 $83,910
Operations Research Analysts 107,760 $91,290
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping 92,580 $49,440
Order Clerks 83,420 $44,660
Purchasing Managers 81,240 $139,510
Public Relations Managers 76,060 $138,520
Labor Relations Specialists 64,590 $93,500
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 62,730 $38,150
Training and Development Managers 44,960 $127,090
Word Processors and Typists 36,030 $47,850
Occupational Health and Safety Technicians 31,450 $58,440
Statisticians 29,800 $103,300
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 24,740 $39,020
Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors 23,220 $109,660
Compensation and Benefits Managers 20,070 $140,360

AI exposure across this cluster

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this cluster it is 49% — 75th percentile of the 14 clusters. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 0.90 here.

Computed across the 48 of 49 occupations in this cluster that carry a published exposure score.

Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks — it is not a prediction that these jobs will be automated. High exposure most often means augmentation (faster work), and many high-exposure occupations are also projected to grow.

Where the work sits

The framework anchors each cluster to one or more NAICS industry sectors — the parts of the economy where this work concentrates.

Education programs that lead here

A sample of the 249 CIP 2020 instructional programs the framework crosswalks to this cluster — the fields of study that prepare people for this work.

  • Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping
  • Accounting and Business/Management
  • Accounting and Computer Science
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General
  • Adult and Continuing Education Administration
  • Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching
  • Agricultural Business Technology/Technician
  • Agricultural Economics
  • American History (United States)
  • American Government and Politics (United States)
  • Anthropology, General
  • Anthropology, Other
  • Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Applied Demography
  • Applied Economics
  • Applied Mathematics, General
  • Applied Mathematics, Other
  • Applied Psychology
  • Applied Statistics, General
  • Applied/Public Sociology
  • Archeology
  • Archives/Archival Administration
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management, General

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Management & Entrepreneurship." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/clusters/management-entrepreneurship

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Management & Entrepreneurship. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/clusters/management-entrepreneurship

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