Careers and salaries vary widely depending on the size of employer, but there will always be a job market for qualified office workers.
Some of the many careers you can pursue with an education in Business Office Systems and Support include:
| Job Title |
Median Hourly Wage* |
Median Annual Salary* |
| Data entry keyers |
$10.70 |
$22,300 |
| Desktop publishers |
$15.14 |
$31,500 |
| Executive secretaries/administrative assts. |
$16.22 |
$33,700 |
| File clerks |
$10.09 |
$21,000 |
| General office clerks |
$10.15 |
$21,100 |
| Information and record clerks |
$13.96 |
$29,000 |
| Legal secretaries |
$18.34 |
$38,100 |
| Medical secretaries |
$11.78 |
$24,500 |
| Office and administrative support workers |
$13.35 |
$27,800 |
| Office machine operators |
$11.66 |
$24,300 |
| Receptionists and information clerks |
$10.03 |
$20,900 |
| Word processors and typists |
$13.48 |
$28,000 |
* Median hourly wages and annual salaries in the state of Texas in 2004, the last year for which figures were available, according to America’s Career Infonet