Salary and Outlook

According to the US Department of Labor, there are 907,600 people employed as management analysts in the United States. The median annual salary is $87,700. Entry level employees earn approximately $50,990 per year and senior employees earn approximately $156,840 per year.

Estimates do not include other potential benefits such as health insurance, overtime pay, or retirement benefits that may be offered by employers.

Job Duties

• Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
• Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.
• Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements.
• Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
• Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports.
• Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available.
• Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
• Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
• Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
• Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.

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