Mid-Level

Administrative Coordinator

The person who keeps the office machinery quietly working — calendars synced, supplies stocked, meetings booked, expenses coded, and the odd hundred small requests that nobody else has time to handle. As an Administrative Coordinator, you're the connective tissue between teams and the systems they depend on.

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Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
Enterprisingleading, persuading
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Job markets for Administrative Coordinators
Employment concentration · ~400 areas
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BLS Occupational Employment Statistics
What it's like

What it's like to be a Administrative Coordinator

On a typical day you might be booking travel, reconciling expenses, ordering supplies, and triaging incoming requests from half the building. The work tends to be interrupt-driven — calendar pings, urgent reschedules, the printer that just died — woven around longer-running projects like onboarding coordination or vendor management. Volume often varies more than complexity.

Most coordination happens with executives, finance, IT, facilities, and outside vendors, often all in the same hour. What surprises people is how much judgment the role quietly absorbs — deciding which request actually warrants disrupting someone's calendar, knowing which vendor email needs a reply today versus tomorrow. You're often the person who knows where every process stub is, even ones formally owned elsewhere.

People who thrive here tend to be organized, unflappable, and quietly proactive. If you need long stretches of focused work or a tidy task list, the constant context-switching can wear thin. If you find satisfaction in being the person who just makes things run, the role can be steady, varied, and surprisingly influential within a small team.

RelationshipsAbove avg
SupportModerate
Working ConditionsModerate
IndependenceModerate
AchievementModerate
RecognitionLower
O*NET Work Values survey
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
INDUSTRIES PAYING ABOVE AVERAGE
1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Administrative Coordinators (SOC 11-3012.00, 43-1011.00, 43-6011.00, 43-6014.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$32K–$200K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
4.0M
U.S. Employment
+0.28%
10yr Growth
421K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

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11-3012.0043-1011.0043-6011.0043-6014.00

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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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