Administrative Manager Salary 2026,
What Administrative Managers Actually Earn

How much do administrative managers make in 2026?

Administrative managers are counted in the BLS administrative services managers series: OEWS May 2025 puts SOC 11-3012 at a national median of $114,130 a year ($54.87 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $67,100 and the top 10% at $207,720. That median surprises people who associate the title with office administration, and the explanation is that this is a management occupation rather than an administrative one. Administrative services managers plan and direct the support functions an organisation runs on: facilities and space, records and information management, procurement and contracts, fleet, mail and print services, and often health and safety and business continuity. In large organisations these are substantial budgets with substantial contracts attached, and the manager is accountable for them. Anyone whose job is running an office rather than directing these functions is more likely counted in the first-line administrative supervisor series, which sits far lower. Position within this band follows organisational size and the value of the contracts managed: a facilities and services manager at a mid-size firm sits near the median, while a director of administrative services at a large corporate or government body sits near the top. Employment is projected to grow 4.6% through 2034 with roughly 23,200 openings a year. → Full administrative manager career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $114,130 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 11-3012, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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