SalariesOffice and Administrative Support: pay for 54 occupations, May 2025
The field Office and Administrative Support had 17,753,430 jobs in the United States in May 2025, with a median pay of $47,450 a year ($22.81 an hour) across all its occupations.
No occupation in this field matches.
In short
- Highest median pay in this field: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants, $76,590 a year.
- Lowest: Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks, $35,070 a year.
- Most jobs: Customer Service Representatives (2,595,750), Office Clerks, General (2,464,940) and Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive (1,706,790).
- For comparison, the median for all occupations in the country was $50,980 a year.
Sorted by median pay, highest first. "Not published" in the yearly or hourly column means BLS releases only the other one for that occupation.
The field as a whole
Office and Administrative Support holds 17,753,430 of the 155,495,730 jobs in the national figures, about 11 in every 100. Its median pay of $47,450 a year is 7% below the median for all occupations ($50,980), which places it number 14 of the 22 fields. Across the whole field, the lowest-paid tenth earned less than $33,530 and the highest-paid tenth more than $76,170; the middle half earned between $38,540 and $60,060. The average was $51,560, 9% above the median.
Inside the field
Inside the field, the best-paid occupation with a published yearly median earns 2.2 times the lowest ($76,590 against $35,070). 16 of the 54 occupations with a yearly median are above the national median of $50,980, and 38 are below it. The occupation in the middle of the field's list is Billing and Posting Clerks, at $48,500. Jobs are unevenly spread: the three largest occupations hold 38% of the field's jobs, while the smallest, Communications Equipment Operators, All Other, has 1,200. Pay stretches furthest within Desktop Publishers, where the highest-paid tenth earn over $96,170 and the lowest-paid tenth under $35,680.
Reading the field
Pay also moves with place. For the field's largest occupation, Customer Service Representatives, the state medians run from $26,700 in Puerto Rico to $50,330 in Washington; its own page has every state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics sorts every occupation into one field by the work done, not by the industry of the employer, so an accountant at a hospital is counted under business and financial operations, not health care.
Questions about this field
What is the highest-paying job in office and administrative support?
By published median pay in May 2025: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants, at $76,590 a year.
Which office and administrative support occupation has the most jobs?
Customer Service Representatives, with 2,595,750 jobs in the United States.
What is the median pay for office and administrative support occupations?
$47,450 a year across the whole field, against $50,980 for all occupations.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Checked in November 2026. Figures are for employees, before tax, and leave out overtime pay and benefits. They are official statistics, not advice or a pay offer; see bls.gov/oes for the original tables.