Administrative Services Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($64,740) to the 90th ($200,010). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 254,140 Administrative Services Managers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.16% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Hawaii, where the location quotient is 1.78, meaning the occupation holds 1.78 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 40,580 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 31.1% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $83,660 at the 25th percentile, $108,390 at the middle, $147,150 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $135,270, a ratio of 3.1 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Administrative Services Managers runs from the $145,650 median in Colorado down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (40,580 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Administrative Services Managers stands number 137 by employment and number 86 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 1% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.3% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 18 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $108,390, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 16,930 jobs, 6.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 363 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $76,510 a year, against $170,560 in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $9,032 a month before tax, $4,169 biweekly, $2,084 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($83,660) to the 75th ($147,150) is worth $63,490 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $119,229 would sit between the median ($108,390) and the 75th percentile ($147,150), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $83,660, is $24,730 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Legislators, Advertising and Promotions Managers, Compensation and Benefits Managers, Postmasters and Mail Superintendents, Funeral Home Managers, Emergency Management Directors. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.