Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays this job the most, $68,600. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Idaho wins, at $53,507. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For office and administrative support workers, all other, the District of Columbia leads both nominally at $68,600 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Idaho first at $53,507. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$45,670
People doing it
192,260
Highest paid
$68,600
DC
Best off, really
$53,507
ID, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$31,090
Highest tenth
$71,940
Lowest, really
$25,484
WV
States with data
49
National average
$48,670
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
91.42%
ID, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $25,484 to $53,507.
- About 192,260 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $45,670. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- This job is not published everywhere — 49 jurisdictions have a figure, with $45,670 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. The District of Columbia tops the ones that are.
- Geographic dispersion in office and administrative support workers, all other is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $25,484 to $53,507 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- With 192,260 workers, office and administrative support workers, all other sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- 49 jurisdictions carry a published median for office and administrative support workers, all other. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,940 |
| This salary | $45,670 |
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 Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
$45,670around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $31,090 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $45,670 |
| Top tenth | $71,940 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $26,580 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $68,600 |
| Spread | $42,020 |
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 | $42,840 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $44,085 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | $61,140 | $48,919 | $53,507 |
| ND | $54,200 | $45,730 | $51,630 |
| NM | $56,930 | $46,413 | $51,350 |
| DC | $68,600 | $54,078 | $48,805 |
| WY | $52,420 | $44,299 | $48,762 |
| OK | $52,420 | $42,441 | $48,072 |
| AK | $57,840 | $48,654 | $47,834 |
| IA | $51,700 | $42,368 | $47,730 |
| RI | $58,470 | $47,388 | $46,728 |
| SC | $51,060 | $42,137 | $45,223 |
| VT | $53,410 | $43,562 | $45,079 |
| KY | $49,970 | $40,700 | $44,988 |
| AL | $49,980 | $40,196 | $44,677 |
| MS | $47,940 | $38,874 | $44,534 |
| MO | $49,660 | $40,685 | $44,338 |
| IN | $48,950 | $40,097 | $43,496 |
| MT | $47,570 | $38,923 | $43,131 |
| CO | $53,460 | $43,491 | $42,898 |
| NC | $48,890 | $40,021 | $42,513 |
| VA | $53,170 | $42,605 | $42,289 |
| NV | $47,700 | $40,507 | $41,768 |
| UT | $48,340 | $38,870 | $40,915 |
| MI | $47,210 | $38,358 | $40,726 |
| WI | $45,960 | $37,697 | $40,492 |
| PA | $48,170 | $39,406 | $40,416 |
| DE | $49,620 | $39,863 | $40,163 |
| CA | $54,020 | $44,151 | $39,217 |
| WA | $50,190 | $42,508 | $39,155 |
| NJ | $51,120 | $41,978 | $38,554 |
| LA | $40,700 | $34,048 | $38,539 |
| TN | $41,570 | $35,581 | $38,460 |
| ME | $45,760 | $37,179 | $38,291 |
| MD | $49,260 | $39,784 | $38,267 |
| OR | $51,610 | $39,683 | $37,894 |
| TX | $42,840 | $36,602 | $37,666 |
| AR | $38,530 | $32,172 | $37,189 |
| AZ | $43,780 | $36,665 | $36,265 |
| NE | $38,840 | $32,324 | $35,766 |
| IL | $42,030 | $34,015 | $34,409 |
| GA | $40,330 | $33,171 | $34,304 |
| NH | $39,690 | $34,071 | $32,342 |
| CT | $40,210 | $33,109 | $31,931 |
| MN | $37,660 | $31,244 | $31,746 |
| MA | $40,810 | $33,250 | $30,720 |
| FL | $36,620 | $31,604 | $30,550 |
| OH | $30,060 | $26,223 | $28,562 |
| KS | $29,970 | $24,877 | $27,652 |
| HI | $34,500 | $28,627 | $26,358 |
| WV | $26,580 | $22,878 | $25,484 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $45,670.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, the District of Columbia keeps the most at $54,078.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — West Virginia sits at the bottom on $25,484.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for office and administrative support workers, all other, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $45,670, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for office and administrative support workers, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis the District of Columbia retains the most, $54,078. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to office and administrative support workers, all other uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is West Virginia at $25,484. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — West Virginia anchors the bottom at $25,484 — and the two source series are dated independently.