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title: "Salesforce Administrator"
description: "Configures and manages an organization's Salesforce system, building fields, automations, reports and permissions without writing much code."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/salesforce-administrator"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Salesforce Administrator

**Category:** Computer and Mathematical · **SOC code:** 15-1211 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 15-1211.00

Configures and manages an organization's Salesforce system, building fields, automations, reports and permissions without writing much code.

Also advertised as: Salesforce Admin; CRM Administrator; Salesforce Business Analyst; Salesforce Platform Administrator; Salesforce Consultant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $105,850 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $50.89/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $67,340 to $167,710, with the middle half between $82,860 and $134,110
- **Total US employment:** 519,530
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +7.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 32,900 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 22/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 519,530 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $67,340 |
| 25th | $82,860 |
| 50th (median) | $105,850 |
| 75th | $134,110 |
| 90th | $167,710 |
| Mean (average) | $114,610 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RI | $134,630 | $131,629 | 1,850 |
| WA | $129,410 | $120,929 | 24,120 |
| MA | $128,240 | $121,259 | 22,160 |
| CO | $127,750 | $123,967 | 6,230 |
| CA | $127,720 | $115,354 | 59,060 |
| NJ | $122,890 | $112,945 | 16,520 |
| OR | $121,620 | $117,665 | 5,640 |
| VA | $120,840 | $119,520 | 23,190 |
| DC | $116,820 | $106,296 | 2,480 |
| MD | $113,610 | $108,242 | 15,340 |
| DE | $110,560 | $110,773 | 2,140 |
| WY | $109,780 | $118,437 | 310 |
| NY | $109,610 | $101,565 | 24,100 |
| CT | $109,600 | $105,781 | 4,800 |
| NH | $107,670 | $103,365 | 2,090 |

38 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 53 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/salesforce-administrator/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/salesforce-administrator.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 544,400 in the 2025–2035 base year to 587,200 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 42,900 jobs, or +7.9%. Much faster than average: 7.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 32,900 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 50.7% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 41.9% |
| Some College Courses | 4.6% |
| Master's Degree | 1.4% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 0.8% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 0.5% |

## What the work involves

- Create and modify objects, fields and page layouts
- Build automations with Salesforce Flow
- Manage users, profiles and permission sets
- Build reports and dashboards for managers
- Clean and deduplicate customer data
- Test and roll out features from new releases
- Train users and write internal guides

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Systems Analysis — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Programming — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Troubleshooting — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Investigative (I), Conventional (C), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| I — Investigative | 6.39 |
| C — Conventional | 6.07 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.30 |
| R — Realistic | 3.27 |
| A — Artistic | 1.98 |
| S — Social | 1.91 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 83.7 |
| INTJ | 81.0 |
| ISTP | 68.5 |
| ESTJ | 67.7 |
| ISFJ | 62.0 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ, INTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Computer Systems Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-analyst) — median $105,850
- [Software Developer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/software-developer) — median $135,980
- [Computer Systems Engineers/Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-engineers-architect) — median $116,580
- [Database Administrator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/database-administrator) — median $104,620
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager) — median $175,140
- [Database Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/database-architect) — median $139,500
- [Network and Computer Systems Administrator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/network-and-computer-systems-administrator) — median $99,130
- [Information Security Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-analyst) — median $129,180
- [Information Security Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-engineer) — median $116,580
- [QA Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/qa-analyst) — median $104,300

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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