First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers offer sit among all 1,495,580 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 1,495,580 jobs nationally, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers make up 0.97% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 172,150 of those jobs, the top three states hold 29.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in Alaska (location quotient 1.84, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $102,980, which is 2.3 times the $43,920 at the 10th, a difference of $59,060 annually. Because the mean wage ($71,560) sits above the median ($66,140), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 172,150 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, District of Columbia would lead at $82,280. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers stands number 17 by employment and number 320 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 38% more than its group median, and it supplies 8.2% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 18 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $66,140, 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 94,210 jobs, 6.3% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 393 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, Mayaguez, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $37,100 a year, against $97,280 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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, $66,140 a year is $5,512 a month gross, $2,544 every two weeks, $1,272 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($53,190) to the 75th ($82,340) is worth $29,150 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 $5,512 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 $72,754 would sit between the median ($66,140) and the 75th percentile ($82,340), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $53,190, is $12,950 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Office Machine Operators, Except Computer, Meter Readers, Utilities, Gambling Cage Workers, Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks, Correspondence Clerks, Statistical Assistants. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.