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Hospitality management majors have a hard time finding a job right out of college. Graduates with a hospitality management degree are entering a strange job market and it can be hard to find your first job in hospitality management. To make finding a job easier, Zippia scanned through 40,471 hospitality management major resumes to identify the jobs hospitality management majors most prefer.

Highest-paying jobs with a hospitality management degree

  1. Starting salary
    $53,000
    Job openings
    170,514
    Job description:
    A business analyst is someone who analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
  2. Starting salary
    $44,000
    Job openings
    205,561
    Job description:
    Account Executives are responsible for looking after the company's client as well as keeping the company-client relationships at a high standard. Their goal is to increase the amount of business a company does with those clients.
  3. Starting salary
    $41,000
    Job openings
    44,365
    Job description:
    Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training.
  4. Starting salary
    $34,000
    Job openings
    91,281
    Job description:
    Market research analysts study market conditions to examine potential sales of a product or service. They help companies understand what products people want, who will buy them, and at what price.
  5. Starting salary
    $32,000
    Job openings
    53,322
    Job description:
    Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training.
  6. Starting salary
    $31,000
    Job openings
    26,277
    Job description:
    Meeting, convention, and event planners coordinate all aspects of events and professional meetings. They arrange meeting locations, transportation, and other details.
  7. Starting salary
    $30,000
    Job openings
    176,732
  8. Starting salary
    $27,000
    Job openings
    40,408
    Job description:
    Information clerks perform routine clerical duties such as maintaining records, collecting data, and providing information to customers.
  9. Starting salary
    $26,000
    Job openings
    34,166
    Top locations:
    New York, NY;  Las Vegas, NV;  Orlando, FL;  
    Job description:
    Travel agents sell transportation, lodging, and entertainment activities to individuals and groups planning trips. They offer advice on destinations, plan trip itineraries, and make travel arrangements for clients.
  10. Starting salary
    $26,000
    Job openings
    12,130
    Top locations:
    Plano, TX;  Chicago, IL;  New York, NY;  
    Job description:
    Meeting, convention, and event planners coordinate all aspects of events and professional meetings. They arrange meeting locations, transportation, and other details.

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What can you do with a hospitality management degree?

Zippia created a hospitality management career map to help recent graduates find career paths. It's based on real resumes from job seekers with bachelor's degrees in hospitality management. The map shows the most common jobs hospitality management majors take throughout the first four jobs of their careers.

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Average hospitality management major salary

Hospitality management major salaries vary significantly by industry. Graduates with a hospitality management bachelor's degree who work in the professional industry have an average salary of $67,287, while those graduates who work in the hospitality industry have an average salary of $35,636. If pay is important to you, then you should look for hospitality management jobs in the professional industry.

Average hospitality management major salary by industry

RankIndustryAverage hospitality management salary Hospitality management salary range
1Professional
$67,287
$25k
$86k
2Manufacturing
$61,570
$25k
$86k
3Retail
$54,283
$25k
$86k
4Hospitality
$35,636
$25k
$86k

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