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First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

SOC 43-1011 · 2024-2034

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$79,426per year
Projected openings
146,890
Projected change
+1.9%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Coordination
  3. Active Listening
  4. Reading Comprehension
  5. Monitoring
  6. Social Perceptiveness

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$94,5847,120
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$86,0057,970
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$83,8478,650
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$80,355830
Napa MSA (Napa County)$79,823660
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$76,6251,080
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$76,37240,860
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$76,3099,190
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$76,29615,670
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$76,227860
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$75,502970
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$74,5521,490
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$73,93912,540
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$73,8982,250
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$73,4081,270
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$72,38614,000
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$71,9371,570
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$71,3652,730
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$70,006370
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$69,5971,170
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$68,954840
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$68,6173,660
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$68,5042,460
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$66,717440
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$66,717530
Chico MSA (Butte County)$65,644670
Merced MSA (Merced County)$65,317580
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$65,3171,590
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$65,123890
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$64,602350
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$64,582510

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$52,074
A quarter earn under
$64,143
Half earn under
$79,426
Three quarters earn under
$99,377
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$124,528

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers$81,87920,300-4.9%
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers$96,30845,620+4.8%
First-line Supervisors of Entertainment And Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services$54,97819,590+9.9%
First-line Supervisors of Security Workers$55,32711,110+5.5%
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$63,02734,020+4.4%
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$78,59348,550+1.6%

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