Business Operations Specialists, All Other in the United States earn a median of $83,050 a year. Pay starts near $47,880. The national 90th percentile is $150,010. This page does not publish a state top-of-range figure.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Business Operations Specialists, All Other, SOC 13-1199). Employment 1,087,090. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (Business Operations Specialists, All Other). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $62,640 to $114,010. Hourly equivalents: $23.02, $39.93, and $72.12. O*NET does not publish a single education mode on the 13-1199.00 summary. This residual occupation is everyone BLS did not put in a more specific business-operations code. This page does not invent a credential. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.
Business operations work that BLS files as All Other, SOC 13-1199. The wage is that residual national line, not a specialty page that borrows it.
AI tools that fit Business Operations Specialist work September 2026
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A general assistant for plain-language notes.
How a Business Operations Specialist uses it: Turn a process note into steps a coworker can follow, then match them to the team's own sheet.
AI inside Excel and Outlook.
How a Business Operations Specialist uses it: Summarize a week of cycle times you already exported, without pasting a customer file.
Google's assistant in Search and Workspace.
How a Business Operations Specialist uses it: Check a published procedure only from a source you can name, not from a guess.
Business operations specialist: the residual line, SOC 13-1199
Business operations specialists, all other, are SOC 13-1199. The locked chips are entry $47,880, median $83,050, and a national 90th percentile of $150,010. BLS counted 1,087,090 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. The business-continuity-planner and disaster-recovery-specialist pages use this same SOC. Their top chip is the District of Columbia 90th percentile, $194,420. This page's top chip is the national 90th percentile.
Why the band is wide
The middle half earns $62,640 to $114,010. From the median $83,050 to the national 90th percentile $150,010 is $66,960 a year. The occupation is a residual. It mixes titles BLS does not break out. That spread is not a promise that one title pays the 90th percentile. This page does not invent a state median.
What you can still say precisely
You can say the SOC, the national percentiles, and the employment count. You cannot say this page is the wage for a continuity planner, a program analyst, or any title BLS did not publish on its own.
Outlook
O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as average (3 to 4 percent). O*NET projects about 108,200 openings a year over 2024–2034. O*NET's 2024 employment figure is not the May 2025 OEWS count used above.
Locked wage chips on this page: entry $47,880, median $83,050, national 90th percentile $150,010. SOC 13-1199. If a sentence disagrees with those three figures, the figures win.
How to do the work that sits inside this pay band
These steps stay inside the published national range. They are not a promise that you will be paid the 90th percentile.
A residual title hides the work unless you name it.
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Rewrite this status so it has a count, a period, and what is still unknown. Do not invent a baseline.The specialty pages on this site already warn that this SOC is shared.
List what I can share about this process and what I should leave out. Do not invent a data rule I did not paste.Careers related to Business Operations Specialist
Similar pay, same field
- Business Continuity Planner $83,050
- Disaster Recovery Specialist $83,050
- Compliance Officer $80,730
- Data Privacy Officer $80,730
Where this can lead
- Operations Manager $105,770
Wages in this list are the national medians printed on those pages. Every new page in this batch uses BLS OEWS May 2025. The step from this median to the national 90th percentile is $66,960.
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Sources
- BLS OEWS — Business Operations Specialists, All Other (SOC 13-1199)
- O*NET OnLine summary for 13-1199.00 (2025 wages and 2024–2034 outlook category)
- Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
- Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 1,087,090.
- Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as average (3 to 4 percent). Projected openings: about 108,200 a year.
- Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.
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