Administrative Manager

Career Area: Clerical and Administrative

Occupation Group: Office and Building Administration

Salary

Percentile wages tell how much a certain percentage of an overall population in a geographic area or within a given industry or field makes. The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall.

An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Administrative Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $74,589

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $74,998

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages and directs administrative support for a company or organization, or manages the business office at a smaller company. Directs clerical and administrative staff, manages supply orders and budgets, monitors company contracts or procedures, or directs equipment and office space use and maintenance.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Administrative Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Office Management: Office management is a profession involving the design, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of the process of work within an office or organization, in order to maintain and improve efficiency and productivity.
• Accounting: Experience maintaining and verifying the business records of a person or business and preparing forms and reports for financial purposes.
• Staff Management: Working experience with the management of subordinates in an organization.
• Customer Billing: A customer billing is any kind of business event where a business collects money from a customer for goods or services provided.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Administrative Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Financial Management: Financial management refers to the efficient and effective management of money (funds) in such a manner as to accomplish the objectives of the organization.
• Business Operations: Experience working with organizational teams to manage the operation and financial performance of a business.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Business Office Manager
• Administrator
• Associate Director
• Administrative Officer
• Administrative Manager

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• Facilities Manager
• Facilities Specialist / Coordinator
• Financial Manager (General)
• Director of Program Management
• Director of Operations