First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for this job. Best paid: Washington, at $79,480. Tax does not change that. Best off: North Dakota, at $64,460 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Washington's $79,480 median for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: North Dakota takes the top position at $64,460. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$69,500
People doing it
1,436,680
Highest paid
$79,480
WA
Best off, really
$64,460
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$45,610
Highest tenth
$104,710
Lowest, really
$45,589
HI
States with data
51
National average
$73,490
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, 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 $45,589 and $64,460. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- About 1,436,680 people in the country do this job. Very few jobs are this big. That is part of why its geography is worth setting out with care.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $69,500 in the middle.
- Interstate variation for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $45,589 to $64,460. 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.
- 1,436,680 workers are employed nationally in first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers. At this scale the occupation's wage geography is a macroeconomic fact as much as a career one, and small per-worker differentials aggregate into substantial regional flows.
- 51 jurisdictions report first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,710 |
| This salary | $69,500 |
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 First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
The national median for this job
$69,500around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $45,610 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $69,500 |
| Top tenth | $104,710 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $53,660 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $79,480 |
| Spread | $25,820 |
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 | $64,940 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $66,828 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $68,720 | $57,094 | $64,460 |
| IN | $69,490 | $55,696 | $60,418 |
| TN | $66,390 | $55,524 | $60,017 |
| MN | $76,440 | $58,931 | $59,879 |
| WI | $70,560 | $55,735 | $59,867 |
| WA | $79,480 | $64,744 | $59,638 |
| SD | $62,530 | $52,423 | $59,507 |
| CO | $76,600 | $60,056 | $59,237 |
| RI | $76,030 | $59,886 | $59,052 |
| IA | $64,400 | $52,090 | $58,682 |
| DE | $75,220 | $58,014 | $58,450 |
| WY | $63,050 | $52,841 | $58,164 |
| CT | $78,200 | $60,293 | $58,148 |
| OH | $64,220 | $52,731 | $57,434 |
| NH | $73,250 | $60,361 | $57,299 |
| AK | $69,840 | $57,962 | $56,985 |
| VT | $68,790 | $54,794 | $56,702 |
| NY | $79,170 | $60,848 | $56,536 |
| KY | $63,180 | $50,851 | $56,209 |
| NM | $62,640 | $50,733 | $56,129 |
| TX | $64,940 | $54,359 | $55,940 |
| KS | $64,000 | $50,321 | $55,934 |
| UT | $66,900 | $52,917 | $55,701 |
| MT | $62,550 | $50,256 | $55,689 |
| MD | $74,140 | $57,829 | $55,624 |
| MO | $63,050 | $50,815 | $55,377 |
| OK | $60,870 | $48,850 | $55,332 |
| NE | $61,980 | $49,864 | $55,174 |
| NJ | $76,640 | $60,054 | $55,155 |
| MI | $64,720 | $51,683 | $54,874 |
| DC | $79,200 | $60,784 | $54,857 |
| MA | $76,770 | $59,319 | $54,804 |
| IL | $69,010 | $54,107 | $54,734 |
| ME | $67,530 | $53,099 | $54,687 |
| SC | $62,920 | $50,880 | $54,606 |
| AR | $58,100 | $47,172 | $54,529 |
| NV | $63,090 | $52,873 | $54,519 |
| PA | $65,270 | $52,621 | $53,970 |
| ID | $61,390 | $49,106 | $53,712 |
| MS | $58,380 | $46,845 | $53,665 |
| CA | $77,590 | $60,280 | $53,543 |
| AL | $60,360 | $48,079 | $53,439 |
| NC | $62,340 | $50,292 | $53,423 |
| GA | $64,620 | $51,476 | $53,234 |
| LA | $57,180 | $46,795 | $52,968 |
| OR | $74,300 | $55,149 | $52,663 |
| VA | $67,170 | $52,982 | $52,589 |
| FL | $64,360 | $53,893 | $52,095 |
| AZ | $64,250 | $52,601 | $52,026 |
| WV | $53,660 | $43,697 | $48,676 |
| HI | $63,080 | $49,514 | $45,589 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $69,500, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- 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 $64,744.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Hawaii anchors the bottom at $45,589. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- These are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, with a national value of $69,500. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers 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 $64,744, 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 figures for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.