Which pays more, Office Manager or Receptionist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Office Manager vs Receptionist

Office Manager pays more: a median of $90,500 against $79,500. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Receptionist move faster — median age 32 days against 61.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Office Manager	Receptionist	Gap
Open postings	14,861	18,327	-3,466
Posted this week	932	1,608
Median salary	$90,500	$79,500	+$11k
25th percentile	$71.5k	$63k
75th percentile	$112k	$98.5k
Salary disclosed	6.3%	8.5%
Remote share	11.6%	12.6%	-1.0pp
Median age of posting	61d	32d
Open over 60 days	41.2%	40.6%
Visa sponsorship	4.6%	14.4%

Pay

Pay distribution

Office Manager

$41k$157k

Receptionist

$36k$138k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Office Manager

just posted61d median90d+

Receptionist

just posted32d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Office Manager — technologies

Swift

72.0%

TypeScript

65.8%

Spark

59.6%

Java

53.4%

Salesforce

47.2%

Node.js

41.0%

34.8%

Receptionist — technologies

Terraform

72.0%

Java

65.8%

Figma

59.6%

AWS

53.4%

JavaScript

47.2%

Python

41.0%

Spark

34.8%

Office Manager — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Fairmount Legal

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Pinewood Education

6.5%

Beacon Robotics

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

Receptionist — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Solstice Biotech

8.7%

Vantage Logistics

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Halcyon Energy

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Operations & Admin comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.