Career
Administrative services managers
Keep the offices, records and services of an organization working.
$114,130
Median pay
+5.2%
Job growth, 2025–35
22,000
Openings a year
Bachelor's degree
Typical education
4 years
Typical time after high school
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
- Set goals and deadlines for the department.
- Acquire, distribute and store supplies.
- Analyze internal processes and recommend and implement procedural or policy changes to improve operations, such as supply changes or the disposal of records.
- Conduct classes to teach procedures to staff.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on persuasion & leadership, then information & systems?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Time Management, Speaking.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
4 years of education after high school (bachelor's degree), for a median of $114,130 a year and 22,000 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
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Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$69,500 · +0.1%
- General and Operations Managers$105,770 · +5.0%
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants$76,590 · +0.0%
- Project Management Specialists$102,320 · +6.7%
- Document Management Specialists
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.