Office Manager salary in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $59,870–$80,800. The top tenth earns $96,480 or more, 2.1 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.3 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $20,930 wide, against $21,150 across Alaska and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Alaska nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $9,030 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $11,900, or about $15,355 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $69,500 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $69,840 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $20,003 to the $68,900 median and brings it to $88,903 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Alaska nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between paralegals ($73,380) and executive assistants ($66,860). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,020.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #12 of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (-0.9%), between accountants (+2.6%) and project coordinators (-4.2%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost less in the Alaska nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 19.6% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 17.9% across Alaska and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $68,620 in Anchorage to $73,620 in Fairbanks-College, a gap of $5,000 a year. The one area in Alaska with more office managers, Anchorage, AK ($68,620), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #113 of 517 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Alaska, Pueblo and Appleton pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and Harrisonburg and Kahului-Wailuku just below. All four are within $440 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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