150+ Admin & Office Support Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Observed local wage data puts office and administrative support at a $54,490 mean annual wage in the metro, with executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants averaging $80,590 and first-line supervisors averaging $76,190. Posting-based signals are more current but less official: local advertised ranges center on about $50k to $68k for salaried roles and about $18 to $23 / hour for hourly roles, while a recent Columbia agency job posted $19-$23 per hour and a recent public posting listed $49,214-$51,203 with potential growth to $77,620.

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Advertised pay

Across the 116 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $39,520 at the 25th percentile, $46,062 at the median and $62,452 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Baltimore is still a real hiring market for administrative and office support work, but it is competitive rather than easy. The metro had more than 300 postings across more than 200 companies in the last 90 days, and BLS still counted 159,220 office and administrative support jobs locally, equal to 11.7% of employment. Fresh public openings in Columbia and Towson show live demand, but Maryland administrative postings were down 11.7% year over year and Baltimore professional and business services employment was down 1.2476%, so a generic admin search is less effective than a targeted one.

Best positioned: Candidates with at least some prior typing, secretarial, or office-coordination experience, strong Microsoft Office and Excel skills, and willingness to work onsite in county government or healthcare-adjacent offices have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming this is an easy-entry market: most openings are onsite, and recent local examples still screened for prior office experience while typical postings stayed open around 29 days.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 164 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Mercy Medical Center, Inc.: 12 open roles
2. LifeBridge Health Inc: 8 open roles
3. Frequentis: 3 open roles
4. Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Inc.: 3 open roles
5. Maryland AG: 3 open roles
6. Milan Laser Hair Removal: 3 open roles
7. United Surgical Partners International: 3 open roles
8. Advancedderm: 2 open roles
9. Anne Arundel Dermatology, Inc.: 2 open roles
10. BJ's Restaurants, Inc.: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Baltimore: 44
• Annapolis: 15
• Columbia: 13
• Towson: 9
• Catonsville: 8
• Bowie: 7
• Owings Mills: 6
• Bel Air: 5

Work arrangement

on-site 142 (91%), hybrid 13 (8%), remote 1 (1%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated less in abstract 'office assistant' work and more in places where someone must physically keep a location or department running. In the local posting mix, healthcare accounts for about 30%, with additional hospital and healthcare categories adding about 15% each, and insurance about 10%. Named active employers include LifeBridge Health Inc, Mercy Medical Center, Inc., MedStar Health, and University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc., which lines up with local demand for data entry, customer service, patient registration, insurance verification, and Excel. Government is another concrete lane. Maryland opened an Executive Administrative Assistant notice tied to Howard County Health Department in Columbia, and Baltimore County posted an Office Coordinator role in Towson. Private-sector demand also shows up in operations-heavy settings, including W. R. Grace in Baltimore, CJ Maintenance in Columbia, and a Columbia staffing-firm role that was explicitly 100% onsite. One boundary to keep in mind: some strong healthcare-adjacent signals here involve front-desk and patient-access work. If your background is mainly medical records, billing, or coding, that is better treated as a neighboring healthcare-support-admin lane than general office support.

• Healthcare front office and patient-access support (high): This is the deepest local pocket of demand, backed by healthcare-heavy industry mix, hospital-system employers, and recurring skills such as patient registration and insurance verification.
• County and public-sector office coordination (high): Recent openings in Columbia and Towson show that public employers still need experienced admins for structured, in-person departmental support.
• Operations-heavy private employers and staffing-firm placements (moderate): Manufacturing, facilities, and general office coverage roles remain available, especially for candidates comfortable supporting site-based teams and standard business-hour coverage.

Where to focus: Focus first on onsite coordinator, receptionist, and administrative support roles inside healthcare systems and county/public offices, then use staffing firms as a second channel for Columbia and Baltimore coverage roles.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient Access Representative: It is a strong neighboring path because local admin demand is concentrated in healthcare, and postings frequently mention patient registration and insurance verification.
• Legal Assistant: Administrative demand nationally is concentrated in legal alongside healthcare and financial services, so strong document control and scheduling skills can transfer well.
• Project Coordinator: The admin role is shifting toward more strategic, tech-enabled coordination, which makes scheduling, follow-up, reporting, and meeting support transferable.
• Workplace or Facilities Coordinator: Baltimore admin hiring is heavily onsite, so candidates who can support office operations, vendors, and workplace logistics fit a nearby lane.

What postings ask for

• Microsoft Office / Microsoft Office Suite (table_stakes | immediate): Microsoft Office appears in about 20% of local postings and Microsoft Office Suite in about 10%, making it a basic screening skill for most office-support roles. Who: Everyone in this market.
• Excel and data-entry accuracy (table_stakes | immediate): Data entry shows up in about 20% of local postings and Microsoft Excel in about 10%, so accuracy and spreadsheet comfort are core, not optional. Who: Entry-level candidates, career switchers, and anyone targeting coordinator roles.
• Customer service and front-desk workflow (differentiator | immediate): Customer service appears in about 10% of local postings, and with about 90% of roles onsite, employers need people who can handle phones, visitors, and interruptions smoothly. Who: Career switchers from retail, hospitality, and patient-facing work.
• Patient registration and insurance verification (differentiator | immediate): Both skills show up in about 10% of local postings, and healthcare is the largest local hiring cluster for this market. Who: Candidates targeting hospital, clinic, and physician-office front desks.
• Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini (differentiator | near-term): Employers increasingly want administrative candidates who can work with generative AI tools, and skills-first hiring is putting more weight on applied tech fluency. Who: Mid-career admins and career switchers trying to stand out from routine clerical applicants.
• Data literacy and AI-assisted reporting (premium | near-term): Data literacy is increasingly critical in admin work, and applied AI and data skills can lift pay versus peers who stay purely clerical. Who: Anyone aiming for executive support, office manager track, or project-coordination adjacency.

Questions about this market

What do Administrative & Office Support roles pay in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Observed local wage data puts office and administrative support at a $54,490 mean annual wage in the metro, with executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants averaging $80,590 and first-line supervisors averaging $76,190. Posting-based signals are more current but less official: local advertised ranges center on about $50k to $68k for salaried roles and about $18 to $23 / hour for hourly roles, while a recent Columbia agency job posted $19-$23 per hour and a recent public posting listed $49,214-$51,203 with potential growth to $77,620. This is a middle-income market, not a high-salary one. Baltimore's mean hourly wage for the group was $26.20 versus $24.79 nationally, but Maryland's mean offered salary on new admin openings was still only about $54,877 in August 2026.

Where is demand for Administrative & Office Support roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated less in abstract 'office assistant' work and more in places where someone must physically keep a location or department running. In the local posting mix, healthcare accounts for about 30%, with additional hospital and healthcare categories adding about 15% each, and insurance about 10%. Named active employers include LifeBridge Health Inc, Mercy Medical Center, Inc., MedStar Health, and University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc., which lines up with local demand for data entry, customer service, patient registration, insurance verification, and Excel. Government is another concrete lane. Maryland opened an Executive Administrative Assistant notice tied to Howard County Health Department in Columbia, and Baltimore County posted an Office Coordinator role in Towson. Private-sector demand also shows up in operations-heavy settings, including W. R. Grace in Baltimore, CJ Maintenance in Columbia, and a Columbia staffing-firm role that was explicitly 100% onsite. One boundary to keep in mind: some strong healthcare-adjacent signals here involve front-desk and patient-access work. If your background is mainly medical records, billing, or coding, that is better treated as a neighboring healthcare-support-admin lane than general office support.

Which employers are hiring the most Administrative & Office Support talent in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from LifeBridge Health Inc (15 postings), Mercy Medical Center, Inc. (10 postings), R1 RCM, Inc. (5 postings), Dominos (5 postings), Crescent Hotels & Resorts (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Administrative & Office Support roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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