Business Operations Specialists, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays this job the most on paper: $108,160. Two things happen before that money is yours. State tax takes a share, which puts Washington in front. Then local prices decide what is left, and Alabama wins at $83,542. The best offer and the best deal are not the same place.
- For business operations specialists, all other, the District of Columbia's $108,160 median leads nominally and survives neither adjustment. State income tax differentials alone are sufficient to promote Washington; regional price parity then promotes Alabama, whose $83,542 real figure is the highest purchasing power available in this occupation. Nominal wage comparisons across states are therefore a poor guide to relocation, and the error compounds rather than cancels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$83,050
People doing it
1,087,090
Highest paid
$108,160
DC
Best off, really
$83,542
AL, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$47,880
Highest tenth
$150,010
Lowest, really
$54,351
OR
States with data
51
National average
$93,970
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
89.97%
AL, 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 $54,351 and $83,542. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Set the geography aside for a moment. The striking thing about this job is how many people do it: 1,087,090. When the numbers on this page move, they move for a great many households at once.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $83,050. Nothing is missing.
- Interstate variation for business operations specialists, all other is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $54,351 to $83,542. 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.
- National employment in business operations specialists, all other is 1,087,090, placing it among the largest occupations by headcount. Policy changes touching this occupation's effective tax or its regional wage structure therefore have unusually broad incidence.
- Coverage for business operations specialists, all other is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Business Operations Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $150,010 |
| This salary | $83,050 |
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 Business Operations Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
$83,050around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $47,880 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $83,050 |
| Top tenth | $150,010 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Business Operations Specialists, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $61,240 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $108,160 |
| Spread | $46,920 |
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 | $80,820 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $83,170 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $100,240 | $75,163 | $83,542 |
| OK | $93,640 | $70,992 | $80,412 |
| SD | $85,340 | $68,867 | $78,173 |
| AK | $94,740 | $75,480 | $74,207 |
| ND | $80,500 | $65,151 | $73,557 |
| WA | $100,360 | $79,433 | $73,169 |
| MD | $101,500 | $75,702 | $72,815 |
| DE | $95,040 | $70,649 | $71,181 |
| DC | $108,160 | $78,695 | $71,022 |
| IA | $80,470 | $62,995 | $70,966 |
| KS | $83,350 | $63,104 | $70,143 |
| CO | $92,520 | $70,555 | $69,594 |
| TN | $78,690 | $64,188 | $69,382 |
| OH | $79,350 | $63,187 | $68,822 |
| MS | $76,980 | $59,998 | $68,733 |
| NM | $79,100 | $61,925 | $68,512 |
| MO | $80,420 | $62,563 | $68,180 |
| TX | $80,820 | $65,687 | $67,596 |
| IN | $79,030 | $62,126 | $67,393 |
| NE | $77,980 | $60,844 | $67,324 |
| WY | $74,060 | $60,931 | $67,069 |
| MI | $81,810 | $63,157 | $67,057 |
| RI | $88,130 | $67,945 | $66,999 |
| NC | $80,230 | $62,579 | $66,475 |
| SC | $79,110 | $61,554 | $66,062 |
| KY | $74,690 | $58,878 | $65,081 |
| MT | $74,990 | $58,709 | $65,056 |
| AZ | $83,280 | $65,738 | $65,020 |
| ID | $76,400 | $59,382 | $64,951 |
| UT | $80,190 | $61,675 | $64,920 |
| MA | $93,270 | $70,102 | $64,766 |
| PA | $80,590 | $63,051 | $64,668 |
| NH | $83,740 | $67,741 | $64,304 |
| VA | $85,200 | $64,630 | $64,149 |
| NJ | $91,060 | $69,280 | $63,628 |
| IL | $82,070 | $62,649 | $63,374 |
| HI | $92,620 | $68,392 | $62,971 |
| GA | $78,410 | $60,678 | $62,749 |
| CT | $85,530 | $65,046 | $62,732 |
| FL | $79,650 | $64,864 | $62,699 |
| ME | $78,830 | $60,286 | $62,088 |
| WV | $69,240 | $55,258 | $61,554 |
| MN | $77,820 | $59,808 | $60,770 |
| NY | $83,450 | $63,628 | $59,119 |
| CA | $87,570 | $66,384 | $58,965 |
| VT | $71,710 | $56,656 | $58,628 |
| LA | $63,220 | $51,467 | $58,257 |
| NV | $67,330 | $56,197 | $57,947 |
| WI | $67,370 | $53,680 | $57,660 |
| AR | $61,240 | $49,579 | $57,312 |
| OR | $77,170 | $56,917 | $54,351 |
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 $83,050 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $79,433.
- 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 Oregon, on $54,351.
- All wage figures for business operations specialists, all other are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $83,050. 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.
- Take-home calculations for business operations specialists, all other assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $79,433, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms results for business operations specialists, all other 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; Oregon anchors the distribution at $54,351. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.