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First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 25,630.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-1011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$77,990 · 50th
$52,29010th
$63,38025th
$77,99050th
$96,82075th
$112,06090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$77,990 in Boston buys what $72,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Boston
Boston This page$77,990$72,000108.3
Worcester$73,130$71,300102.5−1.0%
Springfield$71,630$74,60096.1+3.5%
Barnstable Town$71,390$72,60098.4+0.8%
Pittsfield$70,880$74,50095.1+3.5%
Amherst Town$68,320$68,200100.2−5.4%

Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
25,630 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-1011, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-office-and-administrative-support-workers.

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