Business Operations Specialists, All Other 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 ($46,230) to the 90th ($147,830). 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

With 1,128,200 jobs nationally, Business Operations Specialists, All Other make up 0.73% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 168,180 of those jobs, the top three states hold 30.1%, and the deepest concentration sits in District of Columbia (location quotient 7.37, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $101,600 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($147,830) is 3.2 times the 10th percentile ($46,230), a gap of $101,600 a year. The mean of $92,380 sitting above the median of $81,270 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Business Operations Specialists, All Other runs from the $106,810 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (168,180 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Business Operations Specialists, All Other stands number 29 by employment and number 200 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Business and Financial Operations Occupations, the group median wage is $78,420 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 4% more than its group median, and it supplies 10.9% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 19 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $81,270, 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

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 77,770 jobs, 6.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 391 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, $52,320 a year, against $131,020 in Lexington Park, MD. 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

As a household number, $81,270 a year is $6,772 a month gross, $3,126 every two weeks, $1,563 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($60,820) to the 75th ($110,030) is worth $49,210 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $6,772 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $89,397 would sit between the median ($81,270) and the 75th percentile ($110,030), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $60,820, is $20,450 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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