# Facilities Managers

US SOC code 11-3013. Markdown version of https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/11-3013

Also called: Facility manager, Building manager, Property operations manager, Plant manager, Director of facilities.

## In brief

In May 2025, [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip) counted **156,180** US facilities managers, with median pay of **$106,660** a year. Of the BLS counts since 2021, the May 2025 count is the highest. The earliest figure here is [an estimate](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Look-Back-Facility-Management-in-the-1950s--20108) of **40,000** from 1954, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for facilities managers: BACnet/IP building automation systems, IoT sensors, and IWMS platforms, 2010 to 2020.

## What the sources say

### Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 4.6% from 2025 to 2035. Source: [BLS Employment Projections 2025-35](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=11-3013&ioType=o).

### AI exposure studies

- **27.3%** of this job's tasks are exposed to large language models. Not a forecast of job losses. [Eloundou and others, 2023](https://github.com/openai/GPTs-are-GPTs/blob/main/data/occ_level.csv)

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend.

## Facilities Managers employment and pay by year

- On record since: 1870
- Latest US employment: 156,180 (May 2025). Source: BLS OEWS May 2025 [4]
- Latest US median pay: $106,660 (May 2025). Source: BLS OEWS May 2025 [6]
- Outlook: +4.6% by 2035. Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 [19]

### All 9 years of cited US data

| Year | US employment | Annual pay (median unless marked) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1954 | 40,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., FacilitiesNet [1] |
| 1973 | 80,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., FacilitiesNet [2] |
| 1982 | n/a | $28,000 (estimate) | Est., BLS Monthly Labor Review [5] |
| 1992 | 200,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., IFMA History [3] |
| 2021 | 101,230 | $97,930 | BLS OEWS May 2021 [4] |
| 2022 | 116,980 | $99,030 | BLS OEWS May 2022 [4] |
| 2023 | 131,400 | $102,340 | BLS OEWS May 2023 [4] |
| 2024 | 141,090 | $104,690 | BLS OEWS May 2024 [4] |
| 2025 | 156,180 | $106,660 | BLS OEWS May 2025 [4] |

## Sources (42)

### Employment series

1. [FacilitiesNet — "Look Back: Facility Management in the 1950s" (Building Operating Management launch, 1954 market context)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Look-Back-Facility-Management-in-the-1950s--20108), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
2. [FacilitiesNet — "The 1970s Energy Crisis Shined a Spotlight on Facility Management" (1973 OSHA citations, energy crisis context)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/The-1970s-Energy-Crisis-Shined-a-Spotlight-on-Facility-Management--20171), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
3. [IFMA History — IFMA membership surpassed 10,000 in 1992 (founding and growth milestones)](https://www.ifma.org/about/about-ifma/history/), International Facility Management Association
4. BLS OEWS, national cross-industry estimates (flat file), Bureau of Labor Statistics. Editions: [2021](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm21nat.zip), [2022](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm22nat.zip), [2023](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm23nat.zip), [2024](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm24nat.zip), [2025](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip)

### Wage series

5. [BLS Monthly Labor Review — "Occupational salary levels for white-collar workers, 1982" (administrative and plant operations managers)](https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/10/rpt2full.pdf), Bureau of Labor Statistics
6. BLS OEWS, national cross-industry estimates (flat file), Bureau of Labor Statistics. Editions: [2021](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm21nat.zip), [2022](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm22nat.zip), [2023](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm23nat.zip), [2024](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm24nat.zip), [2025](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip)

### Tool eras

7. [FacilitiesNet — "Look Back: Facility Management in the 1950s" (origins of the building superintendent role, early titles)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Look-Back-Facility-Management-in-the-1950s--20108), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
8. [FacilitiesNet — "Tracing 70 Years of Facility Management History" (1950s-2020s overview)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/tip/Tracing-70-Years-of-Facility-Management-History--53955), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
9. [FacilitiesNet — "Retrospective: Facility Managers Help Modernize Buildings in the 1960s" (elevator automation, ceiling systems, computerized maintenance 1967)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Retrospective-Facility-Managers-Help-Modernize-Buildings-in-the-1960s--20132), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
10. [FacilitiesNet — "The 1970s Energy Crisis Shined a Spotlight on Facility Management" (OPEC embargo, thermostat mandates, computerized controls)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/The-1970s-Energy-Crisis-Shined-a-Spotlight-on-Facility-Management--20171), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
11. [IFMA History — founding 1980, name change 1982, CFM credential 1992-93, membership 10,000 in 1992](https://www.ifma.org/about/about-ifma/history/), International Facility Management Association
12. [FacilitiesNet — "The 1980s: When Office Spaces Were King" (open office 48% by 1984, CMMS adoption, sick building syndrome)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/The-1980s-When-Office-Spaces-Were-King--20200), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
13. [FTMaintenance — "A Brief History of CMMS Software" (1980s minicomputer era, green-screen CMMS, PC revolution)](https://ftmaintenance.com/cmms/brief-history-cmms-software/), FTMaintenance
14. [LEED Wikipedia — LEED 1.0 launched August 1998, USGBC founded 1993 (green building certification history)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEED), Wikipedia
15. [Umbrex — "How the Facility Management Services Industry Works" (outsourcing wave, ISS, Sodexo, CBRE, JLL integrated FM)](https://umbrex.com/resources/how-industries-work/professional-business-services/how-the-facility-management-services-industry-works/), Umbrex
16. [Building Automation Wikipedia — BACnet, DDC, IoT convergence in building management systems (1990s-2010s)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation), Wikipedia
17. [Johnson Controls 2026 AI and Digitalization in Facilities Management Report (67% of FMs use AI for facility operations)](https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/building-insights/2026/thought-leadership/2026-ai-digitalization-in-facilities-management-report), Johnson Controls
18. [BLS National Employment Matrix — 11-3013 Facilities Managers (2024-34 projections: +3.8%, 151,400 to 157,100)](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=11-3013&ioType=o), Bureau of Labor Statistics

### Forecasts and exposure studies

19. [BLS Employment Projections 2025-35, National Employment Matrix: 11-3013 Facilities managers (2025: 165.9 thousand; 2035: 173.5 thousand; +4.6%)](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=11-3013&ioType=o), Bureau of Labor Statistics
20. [Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), "GPTs are GPTs", occupation-level exposure data occ\_level.csv (O\*NET-SOC 11-3013.00, human-rated β 0.273)](https://github.com/openai/GPTs-are-GPTs/blob/main/data/occ_level.csv), OpenAI

### Historical notes

21. [FacilitiesNet — "Look Back: Facility Management in the 1950s" (Building Operating Management launch, September 1954)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Look-Back-Facility-Management-in-the-1950s--20108), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
22. [FacilitiesNet — "The 1970s Energy Crisis Shined a Spotlight on Facility Management" (OSHA enactment 1971, 1973 citation data)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/The-1970s-Energy-Crisis-Shined-a-Spotlight-on-Facility-Management--20171), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group
23. [IFMA History — founding events 1978-1980 (Herman Miller conference, George Graves, NFMA formation)](https://www.ifma.org/about/about-ifma/history/), International Facility Management Association
24. [LEED Wikipedia — USGBC founded 1993, LEED 1.0 launched August 1998 (green building certification history)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEED), Wikipedia
25. [FacilitiesNet — "Tracing 70 Years of Facility Management History" (COVID-19 as facilities management turning point, health and occupancy challenges)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/tip/Tracing-70-Years-of-Facility-Management-History--53955), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group

### Predecessors & successors

26. [FacilitiesNet — "Look Back: Facility Management in the 1950s" (title evolution from sanitation maintenance executive to building superintendent)](https://www.facilitiesnet.com/facilitiesmanagement/article/Look-Back-Facility-Management-in-the-1950s--20108), FacilitiesNet / Trade Press Media Group

### Present-day analysis

- [O\*NET 30.3 — Facilities Managers (11-3013.00)](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-3013.00), accessed 2026-06-05
- [BLS OOH — Administrative Services and Facilities Managers (2024-2034)](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Management/Administrative-services-managers.htm), accessed 2026-06-05
- [Johnson Controls 2026 AI and Digitalization in Facilities Management Report](https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/building-insights/2026/thought-leadership/2026-ai-digitalization-in-facilities-management-report), accessed 2026-06-05
- [Eloundou et al. 2024 — GPTs are GPTs (Science)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130), accessed 2026-06-05
- [Facilities Dive — 13 predictions for facilities management in 2026](https://www.facilitiesdive.com/news/13-predictions-for-how-facilities-management-will-evolve-in-2026/808866/), accessed 2026-06-05
- [Facilio FM Copilot — natural language queries over maintenance costs, vendor SLA, cross-building trends](https://facilio.com/blog/ai-in-facilities-management/), accessed 2026-06-05
- [JLL Hank AI — HVAC optimization reduces energy use by 20%](https://www.jll.com/en-us/insights/how-ai-is-boosting-efforts-to-cut-buildings-energy-use), accessed 2026-06-05
- [Johnson Controls OpenBlue — AI platform for building optimization](https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/building-insights/2026/feature-story/how-ai-is-reshaping-facility-management), accessed 2026-06-05

How to read these figures: https://futurehistory.earth/methodology. Every figure links to its own source; gaps stay gaps.