The Datum Report

Occupation 4142 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Office supervisors

Half of full-time office supervisors in the UK earn more than £33,174 a year, and half earn less.

Office supervisors oversee operations and directly supervise and coordinate the activities of those carrying out general administrative and clerical work and performing specialist administrative and clerical duties in relation to finance, records, sales and other services to a variety of commercial, industrial and other non-governmental organisations and public agencies.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements, though GCSEs/S grades are advantageous. Entrants will normally have significant relevant work experience and may require professional qualifications in some areas.

What the work involves

• directly supervises and coordinates the activities of office staff
• establishes and monitors work schedules to meet the organisation’s requirements
• liaises with managers and other senior staff to resolve operational problems
• determines or recommends staffing and other needs to meet the organisation’s requirements
• reports as required to managerial staff on work-related matters

Also called

Administration supervisor · Clerical supervisor · Facilities supervisor · Office supervisor

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for office supervisors, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 11 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Customer service managers · Office managers