High paying office and admin jobs in Bay City, MI with no experience

The best paid office and admin occupations in Bay City, MI that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Bay City, MI run 8.1% below the national average (2024), so a Bay City, MI salary is worth about 1.09× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Bay City, MI · Employed

1Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks$74,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,380 – $97,60060
2Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs$70,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,210 – $70,66050
3Postal Service Mail Carriers$68,640
No formal educational credential
$42,390 – $81,040120
4Court, Municipal, and License Clerks$48,810
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,230 – $78,95050
5Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$47,730
Some college, no degree
$33,280 – $69,430330
6Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance$45,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,860 – $69,98040
7Billing and Posting Clerks$44,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,400 – $60,800100
8Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks$44,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,970 – $65,740130
9Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$43,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,280 – $61,380330
10Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$42,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,170 – $50,810240
11Customer Service Representatives$38,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,780 – $57,080330
12Office Clerks, General$38,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$26,790 – $59,270770
13Tellers$37,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,370 – $46,970120
14Receptionists and Information Clerks$33,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,380 – $45,770240
15Library Assistants, Clerical$30,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,670 – $30,33060
16Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks$29,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,660 – $35,83050

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianBay City, MI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Production, Planning, and Expediting ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,030	$40,380 – $97,600	60
2	Eligibility Interviewers, Government ProgramsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,660	$52,210 – $70,660	50
3	Postal Service Mail CarriersNo formal educational credential	$68,640	$42,390 – $81,040	120
4	Court, Municipal, and License ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,810	$37,230 – $78,950	50
5	Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing ClerksSome college, no degree	$47,730	$33,280 – $69,430	330
6	Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and AmbulanceHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,140	$33,860 – $69,980	40
7	Billing and Posting ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,780	$36,400 – $60,800	100
8	Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,000	$32,970 – $65,740	130
9	Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and ExecutiveHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,750	$30,280 – $61,380	330
10	Medical Secretaries and Administrative AssistantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,820	$35,170 – $50,810	240
11	Customer Service RepresentativesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,880	$27,780 – $57,080	330
12	Office Clerks, GeneralHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,100	$26,790 – $59,270	770
13	TellersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,310	$34,370 – $46,970	120
14	Receptionists and Information ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,860	$27,380 – $45,770	240
15	Library Assistants, ClericalHigh school diploma or equivalent	$30,330	$28,670 – $30,330	60
16	Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk ClerksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$29,830	$27,660 – $35,830	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Bay City, MI. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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