First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers salary

SOC 43-1011 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$69,500

per year, nationally

Middle half

$55,950–$85,090

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

1.4M

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-0.3%

144,500 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$45,610$104,710

10th: $45,610
25th: $55,950
Median: $69,500
75th: $85,090
90th: $104,710

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington	$79,480	107.0	31,790	0.97×
2	District of Columbia	$79,200	109.9	4,080	0.63×
3	New York	$79,170	107.9	83,110	0.93×
4	Connecticut	$78,200	103.6	24,420	1.56×
5	California	$77,590	110.7	149,230	0.89×
6	Massachusetts	$76,770	105.8	34,520	1.03×
7	New Jersey	$76,640	108.8	55,210	1.39×
8	Colorado	$76,600	103.1	26,100	0.98×
9	Minnesota	$76,440	98.6	21,690	0.80×
10	Rhode Island	$76,030	102.3	5,090	1.10×
11	Delaware	$75,220	99.8	5,480	1.22×
12	Oregon	$74,300	103.4	12,200	0.67×
13	Maryland	$74,140	105.0	27,860	1.09×
14	New Hampshire	$73,250	104.2	7,600	1.20×
15	Wisconsin	$70,560	94.1	22,950	0.84×
16	Alaska	$69,840	102.4	5,690	1.89×
17	Indiana	$69,490	93.3	21,780	0.74×
18	Illinois	$69,010	100.0	42,400	0.75×
19	Vermont	$68,790	98.0	1,710	0.61×
20	North Dakota	$68,720	89.0	1,830	0.46×
21	Maine	$67,530	97.0	6,000	1.01×
22	Virginia	$67,170	101.1	35,160	0.93×
23	Utah	$66,900	98.9	18,890	1.18×
24	Tennessee	$66,390	91.9	49,870	1.65×
25	Pennsylvania	$65,270	97.6	56,600	1.01×
26	Texas	$64,940	97.1	160,600	1.24×
27	Michigan	$64,720	96.2	30,690	0.75×
28	Georgia	$64,620	96.3	42,630	0.94×
29	Iowa	$64,400	87.8	10,190	0.71×
30	Florida	$64,360	103.4	93,850	1.02×
31	Arizona	$64,250	100.7	31,930	1.07×
32	Ohio	$64,220	92.8	45,070	0.88×
33	Kansas	$64,000	90.1	12,010	0.90×
34	Kentucky	$63,180	90.2	19,670	1.06×
35	Nevada	$63,090	100.0	14,380	1.00×
36	Hawaii	$63,080	110.0	10,090	1.74×
37	Missouri	$63,050	90.8	22,360	0.82×
38	Wyoming	$63,050	92.7	1,980	0.76×
39	South Carolina	$62,920	93.7	26,710	1.25×
40	New Mexico	$62,640	92.2	8,330	1.03×
41	Montana	$62,550	94.6	4,030	0.85×
42	South Dakota	$62,530	88.6	1,750	0.42×
43	North Carolina	$62,340	94.3	35,830	0.78×
44	Nebraska	$61,980	90.1	9,930	1.05×
45	Idaho	$61,390	95.5	8,360	1.06×
46	Oklahoma	$60,870	87.8	19,860	1.26×
47	Alabama	$60,360	88.8	20,140	1.03×
48	Mississippi	$58,380	87.0	13,680	1.27×
49	Arkansas	$58,100	86.9	13,630	1.13×
50	Louisiana	$57,180	88.2	20,810	1.16×
51	West Virginia	$53,660	89.5	6,900	1.07×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$95,010	110.4	7,630	0.73×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$88,560	115.6	19,480	0.89×
3	Longview-Kelso, WA	$81,980	97.5	410	1.09×
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$81,640	111.1	18,020	0.93×
5	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$80,760	112.6	95,180	1.09×
6	Vallejo, CA	$80,520	108.5	1,160	0.87×
7	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$79,770	106.9	5,490	1.47×
8	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$79,540	105.6	740	0.86×
9	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$79,460	103.2	2,770	1.25×
10	Boulder, CO	$79,450	105.2	1,910	1.07×
11	Napa, CA	$79,220	112.6	600	0.83×
12	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$79,120	105.8	14,710	0.99×
13	New Haven, CT	$78,990	104.6	4,260	1.64×
14	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$78,740	102.7	8,670	1.56×
15	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$78,410	104.8	14,480	0.80×
16	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$78,270	103.7	1,210	1.01×
17	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$77,990	108.3	25,630	1.03×
18	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$77,530	113.6	54,340	0.94×
19	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$77,500	108.6	1,120	0.99×
20	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$77,410	109.9	860	0.95×
21	Kenosha, WI	$77,390	101.1	570	0.82×
22	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$77,350	106.7	9,190	0.92×
23	Bellingham, WA	$76,530	103.3	920	1.09×
24	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$76,400	108.9	23,390	0.81×
25	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$76,380	105.4	7,740	0.69×
26	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$76,370	108.8	1,440	0.78×
27	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$76,320	107.8	1,730	0.91×
28	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$76,240	98.1	17,400	1.46×
29	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$76,200	102.4	490	1.01×
30	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$76,120	111.9	11,780	0.83×
31	Bend, OR	$76,010	103.6	670	0.67×
32	Salem, OR	$75,990	103.6	1,190	0.68×
33	Walla Walla, WA	$75,770	98.5	230	0.96×
34	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$75,640	100.1	1,180	0.98×
35	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$75,590	104.5	15,070	1.20×
36	Madison, WI	$75,290	97.3	3,380	0.90×
37	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	$75,180	90.3	690	0.59×
38	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$74,970	105.7	2,490	1.35×
39	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$74,680	95.7	8,670	0.85×
40	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$74,470	101.8	6,930	1.05×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers earn the most

Best paying metro areas for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

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