Maintenance Director Salary 2026,
What Maintenance Directors Actually Earn

How much do maintenance directors make in 2026?

Maintenance directors are counted in the BLS facilities managers series: OEWS May 2025 gives the SOC 11-3013 national median as $106,660 a year ($51.28 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $64,480 and the top 10% at $176,120. This is a management occupation rather than a trade, and its band reflects portfolio scale and regulatory exposure rather than technical skill alone. At the lower end sit maintenance directors of single sites and smaller facilities — a residential community, a small manufacturing plant, a school building. In the middle are directors of larger single sites or small portfolios with capital planning and contractor management responsibility. The upper part belongs to healthcare and campus environments, where the role carries accreditation and life-safety compliance obligations, and to multi-site portfolios with substantial capital budgets. Two things distinguish the well-paid holders of this title: the ability to build and defend a capital plan, and command of the compliance regime that applies — life safety, environment of care, boiler and elevator inspection, fire protection testing, energy reporting. Most directors arrive from maintenance supervision or a trade rather than from a management programme. Employment is projected to grow 3.8% through 2034 with roughly 13,200 openings a year. → Full maintenance director career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $106,660 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 11-3013, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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