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Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other

$45,670

Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.

$21.95

Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.

$34,320–$58,460

The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view

What this figure cannot tell you

It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it

Who this suits

At $45,670, Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other lands just under the $50,020 national midpoint — $4,350 apart, inside the range a single promotion or a move between states closes.

With 192,260 in the occupation, Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.

These office roles suit people who want steady indoor work with a defined task set, and who can sustain accuracy through volume rather than variety.

No verified preparation time is on file for Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

Who should not do this

A quarter of the field earns under $34,320 and a quarter over $58,460: $24,140 between them, a ratio of 1.7x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

The bottom quarter is under $34,320, $15,700 short of the $50,020 typical American job. The question worth answering before entering Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other is how long people spend in that quarter, because the median says nothing about it.

Avoid it if you need a role with clear progression; these posts are frequently the first ones consolidated away.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 192,260 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.

What the spread tells you

A ratio of 1.7x — $34,320 to $58,460 — is wide enough that specialising inside Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other pays measurably. $45,670 is the middle of a range you can move within.

Put in money rather than ratios: $34,320 at the 25th percentile, $45,670 at the midpoint, $58,460 at the 75th. $24,140 separates the quarter of Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Getting to $58,460, the 75th percentile, is worth $12,790 a year more than the $45,670 midpoint and $24,140 more than the $34,320 a quarter of Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other settle for.

$11,350 down to $34,320, $12,790 up to $58,460: the midpoint of Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $16.50 at the bottom quarter, $21.95 at the midpoint, $28.10 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.

What these figures are, and what they are not

Employers reported these wages for people already working as Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other. The self-employed are excluded, so $45,670 does not describe an independent doing the same work.

The hourly number on this page is $45,670 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.

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