Hiring an office machine operator in Boston, MA

Employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area pay office machine operators, except computer a median of $47,470, with the middle half of the market between $40,960 and $57,130. Boston residents working in office and administrative support occupations report a median of $44,117, which is 7% below what the metro pays for this role.

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What does an office machine operator earn here?

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual wages paid by employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
25th percentile	$40,960
Median	$47,470
75th percentile	$57,130

Half of office machine operators, except computer in this area earn between $40,960 and $57,130. A band set below $40,960 competes for the bottom quarter of the market.

Place of residence

What Boston residents earn

$44,117

Median earnings of Boston residents working in office and administrative support occupations, 34,352 people. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. Where people live, not where they work, so it is not the same measurement as the wages beside it.

The 7% figure is not a pay gap. ACS counts the civilian employed population 16 and over, part-time and part-year work included; OEWS counts wage-and-salary jobs only. The two populations differ, so read this number against other cities rather than as a shortfall: the same definitional difference applies to every city equally, which is what makes a city-to-city reading sound.

The two sit close together, so pay alone is unlikely to be what wins or loses this hire.

What does the role actually involve?

Core tasks

Read job orders to determine the type of work to be done, the quantities to be produced, and the materials needed.
Deliver completed work.
Place original copies in feed trays, feed originals into feed rolls, or position originals on tables beneath camera lenses.
Sort, assemble, and proof completed work.
Operate office machines such as high speed business photocopiers, readers, scanners, addressing machines, stencil-cutting machines, microfilm readers or printers, folding and inserting machines, bursters, and binder machines.

O*NET 29.1, task statements for SOC 43-9071.

Tools and technologies in demand

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook.

O*NET 29.1, flagged in demand or hot for this occupation. Useful as a screen, not as a checklist.

Is the talent actually in Boston?

This is a job zone two: some preparation needed occupation. These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

It does not require a degree, which widens the pool considerably. For context, 54.1% of Boston adults hold one. Census ACS 5-year 2023, table S1501.

The average Boston commute runs 30.2 minutes, which is roughly how far your catchment reaches before candidates start saying no. 18.8% already work from home, so a fully onsite requirement here is competing against that.

How often do these jobs turn over?

In Suffolk County, administrative and support services employs 33,671 and turns over 13.2% a quarter, with 7,434 hires against 7,408 separations. Average earnings in that industry run $7,207 a month. Census LEHD Quarterly Workforce Indicators, 2024 Q1, NAICS 56.

That figure covers every occupation in the industry, not this role alone, so read it as the local churn rate rather than as a number about office machine operators, except computer. It still tells you what you are hiring into: a high-churn market, where speed matters more than a perfect fit.

What does the search cost?

The fee is set by the seniority of the role, never by salary and never by location. Across all six tiers it runs $6,240 to $54,340 per search. A contingency firm hiring at this role's median would bill roughly $9,494 to $14,241 on the first year salary alone.

One owner runs the search from market map to signed offer. Searches typically fill in 23 to 35 days, which is a typical window rather than a promise, and the replacement guarantee runs 45 days at 50% off.

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