First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 25,630.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.
$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.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston This page | $77,990 | $72,000 | 108.3 | — |
| Worcester | $73,130 | $71,300 | 102.5 | −1.0% |
| Springfield | $71,630 | $74,600 | 96.1 | +3.5% |
| Barnstable Town | $71,390 | $72,600 | 98.4 | +0.8% |
| Pittsfield | $70,880 | $74,500 | 95.1 | +3.5% |
| Amherst Town | $68,320 | $68,200 | 100.2 | −5.4% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
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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