1,500+ Admin & Office Support Jobs in New York, NY

Observed local wage data is decent but not spectacular: BLS puts the metro occupation median at $59,680, with the 25th percentile at $48,670 and the 75th percentile at $74,250 in May 2025. More recent proxy signals sit a bit higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $66k to $81k, New York statewide offered salaries on new openings average about $62,306 in July 2026, and one short-term temp listing paid $25–$27 per hour.

Full July 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 1,211 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $47,840 at the 25th percentile, $66,300 at the median and $82,500 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 7, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is still a real market, not a dead one: local unemployment was 4.5% in June 2026, metro nonfarm employment was up 0.6837% year over year, and Professional and Business Services employment was up 1.3285%. For the occupation itself, Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows New York administrative and office support employment up 0.8% and active postings up 0.6% year over year in July 2026, while national administrative and office support postings were down 8.7%. But landing a role is still competitive because most local openings skew entry-level and on-site, remote roles are scarce, and July brought several metro-area WARN notices tied to corporate or office-heavy employers.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to candidates who can work on-site, show Microsoft Office, calendar management, data entry, and customer-service strength, and present themselves as tech-comfortable rather than purely clerical.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming any office job in New York pays a blanket premium; the local occupation median was $59,680, and the strongest salary upside is concentrated in executive assistant and specialized support tracks rather than generic admin roles.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,542 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. H & R Block, Inc.: 65 open roles
2. Hallbartsamhallsbyggande: 42 open roles
3. Adver.info: 32 open roles
4. Globalclassifieds: 32 open roles
5. Realtor.pm: 32 open roles
6. Classifieds24.org: 30 open roles
7. Globalclassifieds.info: 30 open roles
8. Classifieds24.info: 26 open roles
9. Northwell Health, Inc.: 23 open roles
10. CityMD: 22 open roles

Where the openings are

• New York: 870
• Brooklyn: 50
• Stamford: 23
• Greenwich: 17
• Newark: 17
• Manhattan: 16
• Morristown: 15
• Irvington: 14

Work arrangement

on-site 1,223 (82%), hybrid 246 (16%), remote 30 (2%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in site-based employers rather than classic headquarters-only admin pools. In the Callings.ai job database sample, there were more than 3,500 postings across more than 1,400 companies over the last 90 days, with the heaviest industry mix in food & beverage and healthcare at about 30% each, followed by hospitality and retail at about 10% each and education at about 5%. That mix points to a lot of roles embedded in operating sites, clinics, stores, campuses, and service locations rather than purely remote back-office support. The employer base is also fragmented, which is good for resilience but bad for lazy job-search tactics. Hiring is spread across many companies rather than one dominant buyer, about 25% of postings come from large employers and about 20% from enterprise employers, and a separate live tracker still showed more than 60 active administrative assistant openings with employers including Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Figma, One Medical, Chip City, and Justworks. If you want faster traction, focus on employers where administrative work is tied to daily operations, customer flow, or executive coordination instead of waiting for a pure remote clerical role.

• Site-based admin and front-office support (high): This is the deepest pool: healthcare and food & beverage each account for about 30% of sampled postings, and the common local skills are customer service, Microsoft Office, calendar management, data entry, and computer literacy.
• Executive support and office operations (moderate): This slice is smaller but pays better. It benefits from metro Professional and Business Services growth and from employer demand for more strategic, tech-driven support work.
• Temp and contract administrative work (moderate): Short-duration assignments are still present locally, including recent listings around $25–$27 per hour, so contract work remains a viable bridge for candidates needing a faster re-entry point.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site administrative assistant, front-desk, and office-coordinator roles in healthcare and service-heavy employers, then use that base to move into higher-paid executive or operations support.

Roles worth searching next

• Project coordinator: This is a natural move if you already do scheduling, meeting support, task tracking, and documentation, especially with project-management tools like Asana or Notion.
• Workplace coordinator / office operations coordinator: It extends office-manager-style work into facilities, vendors, and workplace operations, which maps well to the broader workflow and office administration skill set emphasized in CBOM and office-manager guidance.
• Property management assistant: New York-area pay guidance groups property-management assistants with executive and administrative assistants, suggesting overlapping employer demand for organized, site-based support work.
• Chief of staff / EA-PA hybrid: Executive-support careers are increasingly linked to chief of staff and EA/PA hybrid paths.

What postings ask for

• Microsoft 365 / Office (table_stakes | immediate): Microsoft Office appears among the most-requested local skills, and broader 2026 guidance still treats Microsoft 365 as core infrastructure for admin work. Who: Everyone in this market, especially entry-level and career-switching applicants.
• Calendar management (table_stakes | immediate): Calendar management is one of the most-requested local skills and is a reliable proxy for trust, prioritization, and executive-support readiness. Who: Applicants targeting administrative assistant, executive assistant, or coordinator roles.
• Customer service (table_stakes | immediate): Customer service is tied for the top locally requested skill, which fits a market where many jobs sit in healthcare, food service, hospitality, and retail settings. Who: Entry-level applicants and career switchers coming from retail, hospitality, or service work.
• Data entry and computer literacy (table_stakes | immediate): Both data entry and computer literacy show up repeatedly in local postings, making them basic screening criteria rather than optional extras. Who: Anyone whose background is not obviously office-based.
• Teams, Slack, Asana, Notion, and cloud collaboration (differentiator | near-term): Communication platforms and project-management tools are now part of the expected toolkit for administrative professionals, especially in more coordinated or cross-functional roles. Who: Mid-career candidates and applicants trying to move beyond basic clerical work.
• AI assistants and workflow automation (premium | immediate): Tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Power Automate, Zapier, and Make are increasingly part of administrative workflows, and employers are rewarding more strategic, tech-driven support work. Who: Mid-career applicants, executive-support candidates, and career switchers who need a modern edge.

Questions about this market

What do Administrative & Office Support roles pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Observed local wage data is decent but not spectacular: BLS puts the metro occupation median at $59,680, with the 25th percentile at $48,670 and the 75th percentile at $74,250 in May 2025. More recent proxy signals sit a bit higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $66k to $81k, New York statewide offered salaries on new openings average about $62,306 in July 2026, and one short-term temp listing paid $25–$27 per hour. This is a market with selective upside, not universal upside. Solid pay exists, but the better bands usually show up when the job combines admin work with executive support, office operations, or higher-trust coordination.

Where is demand for Administrative & Office Support roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in site-based employers rather than classic headquarters-only admin pools. In the Callings.ai job database sample, there were more than 3,500 postings across more than 1,400 companies over the last 90 days, with the heaviest industry mix in food & beverage and healthcare at about 30% each, followed by hospitality and retail at about 10% each and education at about 5%. That mix points to a lot of roles embedded in operating sites, clinics, stores, campuses, and service locations rather than purely remote back-office support. The employer base is also fragmented, which is good for resilience but bad for lazy job-search tactics. Hiring is spread across many companies rather than one dominant buyer, about 25% of postings come from large employers and about 20% from enterprise employers, and a separate live tracker still showed more than 60 active administrative assistant openings with employers including Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Figma, One Medical, Chip City, and Justworks. If you want faster traction, focus on employers where administrative work is tied to daily operations, customer flow, or executive coordination instead of waiting for a pure remote clerical role.

Which employers are hiring the most Administrative & Office Support talent in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Recent postings show the most activity from Dominos (550 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Administrative & Office Support roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ 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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