PayCrunch Research · National BLS OEWS May 2025 pay, with the state table still to come

PayCrunch · Office · SOC 43-1011

The office supervisor who can name the backlog

$104,710national 90th percentile · middle $69,500 / yr
The schedule is the job

First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in the United States earn a median of $69,500 a year. Pay starts near $45,610. The national 90th percentile is $104,710. 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 (First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers, SOC 43-1011). Employment 1,436,680. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.

Entry level · national 10th
$45,610
National 90th percentile
$104,710
O*NET education note
Bachelor's degree
Lower disruption Higher exposure The schedule is the job
Entry · $45,610 National 90th · $104,710 Middle $69,500

Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $55,950 to $85,090. Hourly equivalents: $21.93, $33.41, and $50.34. O*NET respondents most often said a bachelor's degree is required (45 percent). High school was the next answer, at 23 percent. O*NET also places the occupation in Job Zone Three. Neither line is a state wage. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.

Supervise office, administrative, or customer-service employees so the work meets the deadline and the procedure, and correct the error when it does not.

AI tools that fit Office Supervisor work September 2026

A short list of general tools. This is not a sponsored placement, not a weekly crawl, and not a product review with prices. Use whatever your employer already allows.

ChatGPTSee the vendor

A general assistant for plain-language notes.

How a Office Supervisor uses it: Turn a coverage gap into a short note a clerk can follow, then match it to the office's own sheet.

Microsoft CopilotSee the vendor

AI inside Excel and Outlook.

How a Office Supervisor uses it: Summarize a week of backlog or absence notes before a staffing conversation.

Google GeminiSee the vendor

Google's assistant in Search and Workspace.

How a Office Supervisor uses it: Check a published records-retention rule only from a source you can name, not from a guess.

Office supervisor: the queue, the schedule, and SOC 43-1011

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers are SOC 43-1011. The locked chips are entry $45,610, median $69,500, and a national 90th percentile of $104,710. BLS counted 1,436,680 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. The dispatch-manager page on this site is a PayCrunch estimate that names this SOC as the closest occupation BLS tracks. It is not this wage.

Where the national band sits

The middle half earns $55,950 to $85,090. The step from the median $69,500 to the national 90th percentile $104,710 is $35,210 a year. That step is still this occupation, not a director title. This page does not invent a state median.

What the desk actually audits

A useful backlog names the item, the age, and the owner. A schedule that hides an absence is not a schedule. Correcting a clerk's error means showing the procedure, not rewriting the number.

Outlook

O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as little or no change. O*NET still projects about 144,500 openings a year over 2024–2034 because people leave. Little or no change is not a hiring freeze, and it is not a raise.

Locked wage chips on this page: entry $45,610, median $69,500, national 90th percentile $104,710. SOC 43-1011. 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.

1
Name the backlog before you add a person

A queue without an age gets staffed by guess.

1
List the items still open.
2
Mark the age and the owner of each one.
3
Stop when the list is someone else's system of record. Do not paste that system into a chat window.
Prompt
Turn this backlog note into a three-line status a director can read. Do not add headcount or a policy I did not paste.
What changesThe staffing ask has a list behind it.
2
Correct the error against the procedure

A rewrite that skips the sheet trains the next error.

1
Point at the step the work missed.
2
Show the clerk the sheet the office already uses.
3
Record what changed, not a story about why it was fine.
Prompt
Rewrite this correction note so it names the missed step and what is still unknown. Do not invent a policy I did not paste.
What changesThe correction is something the next shift can repeat.
3
Build the week from absences you already know

A schedule that ignores a known absence fails on Monday.

1
Start from the absences already on the calendar.
2
Cover the deadline that cannot move.
3
Leave a blank where you do not know, instead of a name you hope will appear.
Prompt
Turn this coverage note into a week plan that does not assign a person I did not list.
What changesThe week is staffed with people who are actually in.

Careers related to Office Supervisor

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Where this can lead

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 $35,210.

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Paste only facts you already have: a count, a date, a step, a file name. If the draft adds a number, a policy, or a product you did not provide, delete it.

Do not paste account numbers, full customer records, patient information, or anything your employer has told you to keep inside its own system.

Gear for this job

TODO: PC_GEAR is not filled in this batch. No product links and no ASINs until a reviewed list exists. Do not invent ASINs.

What Office supervisors earn by state

TODO: state-wage table is not filled in this batch. The chips above are national OEWS May 2025 percentiles only. State medians are not estimated here.

Questions
How much does an office supervisor make?
The national median is $69,500 a year ($33.41 an hour). The 10th percentile is $45,610. The national 90th percentile is $104,710. Source: BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 43-1011.
Is the dispatch manager page this job?
No. That page is a PayCrunch estimate. This page is the BLS occupation, SOC 43-1011, and the chips above are the national percentiles.
Why is there no state table?
State medians are a TODO on this page. The figures above are national percentiles only.

Sources

  • Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
  • Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 1,436,680.
  • Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as little or no change. Projected openings: about 144,500 a year.
  • Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.

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