First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

A midpoint of $69,500 against $50,020 means First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers pays $1,623 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.

With 1,436,680 employed, this is one of the biggest occupations in the country. Work at this scale is always available and rarely scarce, and the wage on this page is what that combination produces.

Supervising administrative staff suits people who can design a workflow and then keep it running through absence, turnover and a system migration nobody asked for.

How long it takes to become one of the 1,436,680 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

A quarter earn below $55,950 and a quarter above $85,090: a 1.5x ratio, $29,140 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers still clears $55,950 — $5,930 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.

Avoid it if you would resent being accountable for a process you are not resourced to fix.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 1,436,680 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.5x between $55,950 and $85,090 this is a normally shaped occupation. $69,500 is what the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

Put in money rather than ratios: $55,950 at the 25th percentile, $69,500 at the midpoint, $85,090 at the 75th. $29,140 separates the quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $85,090, the 75th percentile, is worth $15,590 a year more than the $69,500 midpoint and $29,140 more than the $55,950 a quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers settle for.

From $69,500 it is $13,550 down to the bottom quarter and $15,590 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers is $33.41 an hour. The quarters sit at $26.89 and $40.90, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.