Office Manager: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.
The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.
10% of office managers earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $45,610
- Hourly
- n/a
- Source
- BLS May 2025
25% of office managers earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $55,950
- Hourly
- n/a
- Source
- BLS May 2025
Half of office managers earn more than this and half earn less.
- Annual
- $69,500
- Hourly
- $33.41
- Source
- BLS May 2025
75% of office managers earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $85,090
- Hourly
- n/a
- Source
- BLS May 2025
90% of office managers earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $104,710
- Hourly
- n/a
- Source
- BLS May 2025
Office Managers directly supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers. The median pay is $69,500 a year ($33.41 an hour) (BLS, May 2025). The most commonly reported education requirement is a bachelor's degree (45% of workers surveyed by O*NET).
- Median pay
- $69,500
- BLS May 2025
- Employed in the U.S.
- 1,436,680
- BLS May 2025
- Preparation
- Job Zone 3 of 5
- medium preparation
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree
- 45% of workers
Data Government data groups this job as First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (O*NET-SOC 43-1011.00). Figures on this page are for that occupation.
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Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).
- Supervise the work of office, administrative, or customer service employees to ensure adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures, correcting errors or problems.
- Resolve customer complaints or answer customers' questions regarding policies and procedures.
- Provide employees with guidance in handling difficult or complex problems or in resolving escalated complaints or disputes.
- Review records or reports pertaining to activities such as production, payroll, or shipping to verify details, monitor work activities, or evaluate performance.
- Discuss job performance problems with employees to identify causes and issues and to work on resolving problems.
- Prepare and issue work schedules, deadlines, and duty assignments for office or administrative staff.
- Recruit, interview, and select employees.
- Interpret and communicate work procedures and company policies to staff.
Ranked by importance to the job
Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.
Knowledge areas: Administration and Management, Customer and Personal Service, English Language, Administrative, Computers and Electronics, Personnel and Human Resources.
Software office managers use
Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.
- FacebookWeb page creation and editing softwareHot technology
- Henry Schein DentrixMedical softwareHot technology
- IBM SPSS StatisticsAnalytical or scientific softwareHot technology
- MEDITECH softwareMedical softwareHot technology
- Microsoft VisioProcess mapping and design softwareHot technology
- SlackCloud-based data access and sharing softwareHot technology
- ADP Workforce NowHuman resources software
- Citrix cloud computing softwareAccess software
- Delphi TechnologyFinancial analysis software
- DropboxCloud-based data access and sharing software
- Google DriveCloud-based data access and sharing software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCSMedical software
Also called: Accounting Manager, Accounts Payable Supervisor, Accounts Receivable Manager, Administrative Supervisor, Customer Service Manager, Customer Service Supervisor.
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Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the correlation between the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level, subtract the average across all occupations, and correlate the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 or below means unrelated. Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.
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- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).