First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,696
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$13,794
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,418
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$69,490
Kept after tax
$55,696
Worth in national money
$60,418
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Indiana's middle earner gets $69,490, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 0.01% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 147 among 493 occupations Indiana publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $69,490 you keep $55,696 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $60,418 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $73,050, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, Indiana sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $69,490, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 0.01% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 147 of 493 in Indiana places first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $55,696 after the full tax stack, from $69,490. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $60,418 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $73,050 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 | $46,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,190 |
| This salary | $69,490 |
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 Indiana | $55,696 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,716 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,024 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $66,618 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,414 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Indiana earn less than $69,490. The published range is $46,150 up to $104,190, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Indiana's $55,696, worked from $69,490. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 147 of 493.
- Two cautions on $60,418, the adjusted value of that $69,490 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 147 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers in Indiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,150 to $104,190. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Indiana take-home of $55,696, on $69,490 for work ranking 147 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 147 of 493 in the state.
- This $60,418 adjusted figure, worked from $69,490, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 147 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 147 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $73,050, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $46,150 and the top tenth $104,190 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Indiana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $60,418 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Indiana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $55,696 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Indiana is $73,050. 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 ($46,150) and the ninetieth ($104,190) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $60,418 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $55,696 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.