Administrative Services Managers
What the pay figures show
- Colorado pays this job the most, at $157,000. Unusually, it stays on top. Tax does not overturn it. Nor do local prices — it is still first at $110,844 once levelled out. That is rarer than it sounds. For most jobs the leader changes.
- Colorado leads for administrative services managers at $157,000 and retains the position through both adjustments, finishing first at $110,844 in price-deflated terms. That robustness is the minority case: across the largest occupations, state income tax reorders the leader roughly a third of the time and price level does so more often still. Where the nominal leader survives both, the wage premium is large enough to absorb the state's own tax and price levels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$114,130
People doing it
263,960
Highest paid
$157,000
CO
Best off, really
$110,844
CO, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$67,100
Highest tenth
$207,720
Lowest, really
$70,526
CA
States with data
50
National average
$129,870
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.38%
CO, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $70,526 and $110,844. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Roughly 263,960 people hold this job nationally, earning $114,130 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- Not every state reports this one. The figures here cover 50 jurisdictions, and the middle wage across them is $114,130. A state you do not see is one with no published number, not one paying nothing. Of those published, Colorado pays most.
- Interstate variation for administrative services managers is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $70,526 to $110,844. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- 263,960 are employed nationally in administrative services managers, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- BLS publishes an occupational median for administrative services managers in 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. ⚠️ Absence reflects estimate suppression — small samples or disclosure rules — rather than absence of employment, so the state comparison above is over the published subset.
Pay band: Administrative Services Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $67,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $114,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $207,720 |
| This salary | $114,130 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Administrative Services Managers
The national median for this job
$114,130around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $67,100 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $114,130 |
| Top tenth | $207,720 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Administrative Services Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $84,480 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Colorado · $157,000 |
| Spread | $72,520 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $114,190 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $117,510 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | $157,000 | $112,376 | $110,844 |
| TN | $127,410 | $98,351 | $106,308 |
| MT | $129,670 | $93,930 | $104,084 |
| WY | $120,510 | $93,609 | $103,039 |
| DE | $139,910 | $98,891 | $99,636 |
| MN | $137,290 | $97,160 | $98,722 |
| IA | $116,920 | $87,252 | $98,293 |
| SC | $124,320 | $90,728 | $97,371 |
| KS | $118,570 | $85,916 | $95,500 |
| UT | $123,700 | $90,310 | $95,061 |
| SD | $106,410 | $83,689 | $94,999 |
| NJ | $144,460 | $102,992 | $94,590 |
| AL | $114,550 | $84,672 | $94,111 |
| NY | $142,280 | $100,767 | $93,627 |
| RI | $128,980 | $94,650 | $93,332 |
| VA | $130,850 | $93,939 | $93,240 |
| WA | $130,630 | $100,552 | $92,621 |
| IN | $112,990 | $85,015 | $92,223 |
| NH | $125,390 | $96,970 | $92,050 |
| TX | $114,190 | $89,163 | $91,755 |
| OK | $104,670 | $78,256 | $88,639 |
| NE | $105,720 | $79,097 | $87,520 |
| NM | $104,790 | $78,746 | $87,122 |
| WI | $108,450 | $80,141 | $86,084 |
| LA | $99,210 | $76,034 | $86,065 |
| MI | $108,210 | $80,608 | $85,585 |
| OH | $101,500 | $78,160 | $85,131 |
| NC | $105,630 | $79,435 | $84,380 |
| CT | $120,200 | $87,429 | $84,318 |
| ND | $94,320 | $74,604 | $84,230 |
| MS | $96,030 | $72,638 | $83,213 |
| GA | $108,250 | $80,181 | $82,918 |
| DC | $128,610 | $91,208 | $82,314 |
| AK | $106,400 | $83,682 | $82,271 |
| PA | $105,640 | $79,905 | $81,953 |
| MD | $115,550 | $84,892 | $81,654 |
| MO | $96,920 | $73,395 | $79,984 |
| IL | $106,860 | $78,861 | $79,775 |
| ME | $105,380 | $77,072 | $79,377 |
| MA | $116,710 | $85,420 | $78,919 |
| NV | $95,780 | $76,211 | $78,584 |
| AZ | $101,160 | $77,870 | $77,019 |
| ID | $92,880 | $70,102 | $76,677 |
| AR | $84,480 | $65,595 | $75,825 |
| OR | $113,250 | $79,142 | $75,574 |
| VT | $97,040 | $72,803 | $75,339 |
| HI | $110,840 | $79,825 | $73,498 |
| FL | $94,850 | $75,557 | $73,036 |
| WV | $84,820 | $65,505 | $72,968 |
| CA | $108,890 | $79,399 | $70,526 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $114,130 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Colorado, at $112,376.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits California, on $70,526.
- All wage figures for administrative services managers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $114,130. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Retained-pay figures for administrative services managers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $112,376, which leads in Colorado.
- Real-terms results for administrative services managers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; California anchors the distribution at $70,526. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.