2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other

Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metropolitan area. Estimated employment 220.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-9199
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$44,530 · 50th
$31,20010th
$33,09025th
$44,53050th
$56,72075th
$70,49090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$44,530 in Hagerstown buys what $47,300 buys across the country as a whole.

Hagerstown's regional price parity is 94.2 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Maryland

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Hagerstown
Lexington Park$50,190$49,800100.8+5.3%
Salisbury$49,350$51,60095.6+9.1%
Baltimore$48,010$45,900104.5−2.8%
Hagerstown This page$44,530$47,30094.2

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

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

20k30k40k50k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 57.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 32.5% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
220 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-9199, Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as office-and-administrative-support-workers-all-other.

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