650+ Admin & Office Support Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The cleanest local benchmark is broad and somewhat lagged: BLS puts Los Angeles office and administrative support occupations at an average hourly wage of about $24.79 based on May 2025 data. More recent local posting data suggests salaried roles center on about $67k to $80k and hourly roles on about $20 to $23 / hour, while role-specific proxies sit higher for executive assistants at $82,850 and office managers at $77,530.

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Advertised pay

Across the 579 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $47,840 at the 25th percentile, $60,000 at the median and $80,144 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

Administrative & Office Support is still a major part of the Los Angeles job market: it accounts for 11.2% of metro employment and remains one of the three largest occupational groups locally. The near-term problem is access, not existence—California employment in this occupation is roughly flat, but active postings are down 14.9% year over year, which points to a replacement market with fewer advertised openings. Recent local layoffs affecting at least 130 jobs at Levine Management Group and Netflix, plus additional Los Angeles WARN notices, likely add more experienced candidates into the pool.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to candidates who can work on-site, show strong Microsoft Office and customer-facing admin skills, and position themselves for either service-heavy front-office work or specialized executive support; about 85% of sampled postings are on-site, about 70% skew entry level, and local executive-support listings emphasize writing, discretion, and comfort with tech-driven workflows.

Main caution: Do not anchor on elite executive-assistant compensation; one West LA opening offered around $130,000 plus bonus, but broader hourly admin postings center closer to about $20 to $23 an hour and remote roles are scarce.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 673 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. UCLA Health: 12 open roles
2. Hallbartsamhallsbyggande: 8 open roles
3. University of Southern California: 8 open roles
4. Confidential: 7 open roles
5. DaVita Inc.: 6 open roles
6. PetVet Care Centers: 6 open roles
7. Spklr: 6 open roles
8. Rachel Sprague: 5 open roles
9. RadNet, Inc.: 5 open roles
10. The United Firm: 5 open roles

Where the openings are

• Los Angeles: 233
• Irvine: 52
• El Segundo: 18
• Beverly Hills: 17
• Costa Mesa: 16
• Long Beach: 14
• Newport Beach: 13
• Santa Monica: 12

Work arrangement

on-site 556 (85%), hybrid 88 (14%), remote 7 (1%)

Where the demand is

The biggest opportunity pool is broad and practical, not glamorous. In the local posting sample, hiring is fragmented across employers and spread across healthcare, restaurants, retail, hospitality, and legal services rather than concentrated in a few office towers. That favors job seekers who search by operating environment—front desk, office coordinator, receptionist, admin support for service-heavy teams—rather than waiting for a handful of headline corporate openings. A second, smaller lane sits in specialized executive support. EntertainmentCareers.net showed 86 executive assistant openings in the Los Angeles Westchester area, and August postings also showed current executive-assistant openings at United Talent Agency and UCLA Health. Those roles are less about generic clerical support and more about writing quality, discretion, executive communication, tech-team coordination, and owning complex calendars or travel. Location and work mode matter more here than many candidates expect. About 85% of sampled roles are on-site and only about 5% are remote, so commute radius is effectively part of job fit in Los Angeles.

• Service-heavy front-office admin (high): Healthcare, restaurants, retail, and hospitality make up most of the sampled demand, which supports receptionist, office assistant, front-desk, and coordinator roles.
• Executive support and office management (moderate): Entertainment, leadership-team, legal-services, and large healthcare employers show a smaller but better-paid lane for executive assistants and office managers.
• Remote general admin (limited): Only about 5% of sampled postings are remote, so fully remote administrative work is the tightest segment of the market.

Where to focus: Prioritize on-site roles in healthcare, legal services, and stable service operators within a realistic commute, while running a second targeted lane for executive-support openings in entertainment and major healthcare systems.

Roles worth searching next

• Project Coordinator: Some Los Angeles executive-support roles are being framed as a pipeline into broader operational responsibility, and project management is now listed among emerging admin skills.
• Operations Coordinator: The role is moving from task support toward workflow ownership and strategic partnership, which makes operations coordination a natural next step for stronger admins.
• Data Analysis Coordinator: AI-related admin evolution is creating new coordinator paths tied to data analysis and process improvement rather than classic clerical support.
• Private Assistant / Household Manager: Los Angeles still shows niche demand for high-touch personal and household administrative support, including a Westside private executive assistant or lifestyle right-hand opening.

What postings ask for

• Microsoft Office (table_stakes | immediate): Microsoft Office shows up among the most-requested local hard skills, and it is part of the basic filter for both customer-facing and back-office admin roles. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level candidates and career switchers.
• Customer service (table_stakes | immediate): Customer service is the most-requested hard skill in the local sample, which fits a market weighted toward healthcare, restaurants, retail, and hospitality admin work. Who: Entry-level candidates, front-desk candidates, and service-industry switchers.
• Writing and executive communication (differentiator | immediate): Los Angeles executive-support roles in boutique marketing and entertainment firms explicitly emphasized strong writing and long-term growth in administration. Who: Mid-career admins aiming for executive assistant or senior coordinator roles.
• AI tool knowledge and workflow automation (premium | immediate): Emerging admin skills now include AI tool knowledge, workflow automation, prompt engineering, data analysis, and project management, while more than one-third of entry-level jobs require some AI competency and traditional clerical postings tied to highly automatable tasks are weakening. Who: Any candidate who wants to stand out above basic clerical profiles.
• CAP or PACE (differentiator | near-term): These are named as key administrative certifications in 2026 and can help signal professionalism when your experience is otherwise broad or hard to compare. Who: Career switchers and early-career candidates who need a credibility boost.
• Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) (differentiator | near-term): MOS directly supports a skill already requested in local postings and gives employers a clearer proof point than simply listing Office on a resume. Who: Entry-level applicants and anyone whose resume undersells their software skills.

Questions about this market

What do Administrative & Office Support roles pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

The cleanest local benchmark is broad and somewhat lagged: BLS puts Los Angeles office and administrative support occupations at an average hourly wage of about $24.79 based on May 2025 data. More recent local posting data suggests salaried roles center on about $67k to $80k and hourly roles on about $20 to $23 / hour, while role-specific proxies sit higher for executive assistants at $82,850 and office managers at $77,530. Los Angeles can pay above national admin benchmarks—the national mean wage for the occupation group is $51,560 and the national median is $60,060—but the metro cost of living is about 13.6% above the national average and rents are about 70% above national. In practice, that means broad admin pay is workable but not automatically comfortable in Los Angeles unless you land a stronger specialty lane.

Where is demand for Administrative & Office Support roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA concentrated?

The biggest opportunity pool is broad and practical, not glamorous. In the local posting sample, hiring is fragmented across employers and spread across healthcare, restaurants, retail, hospitality, and legal services rather than concentrated in a few office towers. That favors job seekers who search by operating environment—front desk, office coordinator, receptionist, admin support for service-heavy teams—rather than waiting for a handful of headline corporate openings. A second, smaller lane sits in specialized executive support. EntertainmentCareers.net showed 86 executive assistant openings in the Los Angeles Westchester area, and August postings also showed current executive-assistant openings at United Talent Agency and UCLA Health. Those roles are less about generic clerical support and more about writing quality, discretion, executive communication, tech-team coordination, and owning complex calendars or travel. Location and work mode matter more here than many candidates expect. About 85% of sampled roles are on-site and only about 5% are remote, so commute radius is effectively part of job fit in Los Angeles.

Which employers are hiring the most Administrative & Office Support talent in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

Recent postings show the most activity from Dominos (175 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Administrative & Office Support roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

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