Office Manager salary in Ithaca, NY

Pay in Ithaca against New York and the US

The middle half of office managers in Ithaca earns $61,960–$79,390. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $93,170, only 1.8 times the bottom tenth, against 2.3 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($72,680) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $17,430 wide, against $35,430 across New York and $29,140 nationally: employers in Ithaca pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $5,750 over it, while the 25th sits $11,680 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $7,419 more a year with benefits. 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 25th percentile and the median in Ithaca, and the New York statewide median of $79,170 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Ithaca

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 $21,379 to the $73,640 median and brings it to $95,019 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 Ithaca

Of the 14 roles we track in Ithaca, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between recruiters ($75,270) and executive assistants ($69,310). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,870.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 14 roles we track in Ithaca (+6.0%); payroll specialists come last (-12.4%). The typical role here is at +0.1%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost more in Ithaca than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 11.2% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Ithaca, 8.1% across New York and 9.8% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in New York

Across the 16 areas of New York with data for this job, the median runs from $60,750 in Watertown-Fort Drum to $80,760 in New York-Newark, a gap of $20,010 a year. Of the 11 areas in New York with more office managers than Ithaca, 10 pay less, the largest of them Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY ($70,000), Rochester, NY ($69,450) and Albany-Schenectady, NY ($73,360).

Ithaca against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Ithaca is #377 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside New York, Fort Collins-Loveland and Waterbury-Shelton pay just above Ithaca and Riverside-San Bernardino and Fairbanks-College just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in Ithaca. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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