First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in California
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,280
after federal, FICA and California tax
Tax takes
$17,310
22.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,543
California costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in California — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$77,590
Kept after tax
$60,280
Worth in national money
$53,543
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- California is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $77,590, which ranks 5 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 11.64% above the national middle.
- Against other work in California, this sits in the middle: 212 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $77,590, tax leaves $60,280 — and because California is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $53,543 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $82,290, since top earners drag the number up.
- California ranks 5 of 51 states publishing a median for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, at $77,590 — about 11.64% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers ranks 212 of 492 occupations in California by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $60,280 remains from the California median of $77,590 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $53,543 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $82,290 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,650 |
| This salary | $77,590 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in California | $60,280 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,415 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,715 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $73,134 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,548 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 113 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,590 as a midpoint for California, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,870 and the ninetieth is $121,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $60,280 take-home in California comes from $77,590. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 212 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of California, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $53,543, the adjusted value of that $77,590 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 212 of 492 in the state.
- The California median of $77,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,870 to $121,650. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $60,280, from $77,590, assumes a single California filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 212 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for California, so $53,543 — the adjusted value of that $77,590 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 212 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $82,290 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $50,870, the highest tenth $121,650, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $53,543 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and California's own levy, $60,280 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in California is $82,290. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($50,870) and the ninetieth ($121,650) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
California's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $53,543 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $60,280 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and California income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.