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Hotel Management Schools in Honolulu

Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has three hotel management schools within its city limits. Travel Institute of the Pacific, the highest ranked school in the city with a hotel management program, has a total student population of 202. It is the 1223rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Hawaii (#1 is University of Hawaii at Manoa).

Hotel Management students from Honolulu schools who go on to become hotel managers, hotel and hospitality managers, food service managers, resort managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 224,360 people working as hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $21,130. Also, Lodging managers make on average $53,500 per year and there are about 31,660 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 170 employed lodging managers earning an average salary of $62,110. Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in this area earn $34,250/yr and there are 1,120 employed.

Honolulu lies in Honolulu county, which is one of the 4 counties in Hawaii. Overall, the Honolulu area has 430,700 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $21/hr average worker wage, and a $43,760 average annual salary. Thus, about 3 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, and 0/1000 are held by lodging managers.

Of the 3 hotel management schools in Honolulu, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Travel Institute of the Pacific comes out as the most expensive ($17,270/yr) for hotel management students, with Kapiolani Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,425/yr.