SOC 43-0000

Office and Administrative Support Occupations

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The Office and Administrative Support Occupations major group (SOC 43-0000) contains 54 distinct occupations in the BLS Standard Occupational Classification system, each measured individually by the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey in May 2025. Combined U.S. OEWS employment across this group is approximately 17,753,420 estimated jobs in covered establishments for occupations where employment is separately reported. The equal-weighted mean of the published occupation medians inside this group is $49,274. It is a derived comparison benchmark, not the group’s worker-level mean or median and not a career-stage estimate.

The published medians span from $76,590 for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants to $35,070 for Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks, a 2.2× endpoint ratio. The ranking establishes those occupation-level values but does not identify the effects of credentials, seniority, responsibility, or industry.

Use this page as a launch pad: each row links to the occupation's national profile, with percentile boundaries, local-area rows, projections, and education assignments where the relevant source publishes them. OEWS wages include straight-time pay, tips, commissions, incentive pay, and production bonuses. Employer benefits, overtime premiums, stock compensation, and nonproduction bonuses sit outside the estimate; their value varies too much to apply one site-wide uplift. For career planning, pair these medians with the 10th-to-90th percentile spread on each occupation's page so you understand the observed wage distribution before committing to an educational or certification pathway. Those percentile boundaries are not an individual's guaranteed floor or ceiling.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 43-6011 $76,590
2 First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 43-1011 $69,500
3 Brokerage Clerks 43-4011 $65,750
4 Postal Service Clerks 43-5051 $62,130
5 Postal Service Mail Carriers 43-5052 $60,550
6 Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks 43-5061 $59,650
7 Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 43-5053 $58,470
8 Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks 43-3051 $58,260
9 Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 43-6012 $55,570
10 Desktop Publishers 43-9031 $55,290
11 Communications Equipment Operators, All Other 43-2099 $54,680
12 Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs 43-4061 $54,210
13 Financial Clerks, All Other 43-3099 $53,830
14 Public Safety Telecommunicators 43-5031 $53,040
15 Cargo and Freight Agents 43-5011 $52,260
16 Proofreaders and Copy Markers 43-9081 $51,120
17 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 43-3031 $50,670
18 Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping 43-4161 $50,610
19 Procurement Clerks 43-3061 $50,580
20 Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 43-5032 $50,340
21 Statistical Assistants 43-9111 $50,330
22 Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks 43-4041 $50,080
23 Loan Interviewers and Clerks 43-4131 $50,020
24 Information and Record Clerks, All Other 43-4199 $49,500
25 Word Processors and Typists 43-9022 $49,280
26 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks 43-9041 $49,230
27 Court, Municipal, and License Clerks 43-4031 $48,700
28 Billing and Posting Clerks 43-3021 $48,500
29 Meter Readers, Utilities 43-5041 $48,150
30 New Accounts Clerks 43-4141 $47,670
31 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 43-6014 $47,540
32 Bill and Account Collectors 43-3011 $47,030
33 Correspondence Clerks 43-4021 $46,800
34 Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping 43-5111 $46,380
35 Order Clerks 43-4151 $46,170
36 Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 43-6013 $45,930
37 Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 43-4111 $45,920
38 Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other 43-9199 $45,670
39 Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 43-5071 $45,260
40 Office Clerks, General 43-9061 $45,010
41 Customer Service Representatives 43-4051 $44,770
42 Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks 43-4181 $44,390
43 File Clerks 43-4071 $43,600
44 Tellers 43-3071 $43,030
45 Telephone Operators 43-2021 $41,740
46 Data Entry Keyers 43-9021 $41,340
47 Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 43-9071 $40,960
48 Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 43-9051 $39,280
49 Couriers and Messengers 43-5021 $39,200
50 Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service 43-2011 $38,630
51 Receptionists and Information Clerks 43-4171 $38,010
52 Gambling Cage Workers 43-3041 $37,580
53 Library Assistants, Clerical 43-4121 $36,910
54 Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks 43-4081 $35,070

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Last updated: May 2025. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025.

SOC classification from BLS Standard Occupational Classification system, 2018 edition.

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