By Lauren Mitchell, healthcare labor reporter and compensation analyst with 10 years covering hospital operations, university administration, and support-work pay
Last reviewed: July 19, 2026
Current Johns Hopkins Medicine postings in Baltimore place administrative coordinator work between $18.87 and $36.86 an hour, depending on level and responsibilities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a $47,460 national median annual wage for secretaries and administrative assistants in May 2024, while administrative services managers earned a much higher median of $108,390.
myJH is an institutional portal used to reach Johns Hopkins employment and administrative systems. It does not establish pay, and administrative workers using the same portal may be employed by different Johns Hopkins entities under different salary structures.
The current coordinator pay ladder
Johns Hopkins Medicine had several live administrative postings that show a visible progression by job level.
A Baltimore Administrative Coordinator position listed $18.87 to $31.15 an hour. A separate Administrative Coordinator II role listed $20.52 to $33.88, while a Senior Administrative Coordinator posting ranged from $22.33 to $36.86.
| Johns Hopkins role | Published hourly range | Annualized at 40 hours |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative Coordinator | $18.87–$31.15 | $39,250–$64,792 |
| Administrative Coordinator II | $20.52–$33.88 | $42,682–$70,470 |
| Senior Administrative Coordinator | $22.33–$36.86 | $46,446–$76,669 |
| Administrative Coordinator/Project Manager | $30.00–$35.00 | $62,400–$72,800 |
Annual amounts are calculations from official hourly ranges and assume 40 paid hours for 52 weeks.
The pattern looks orderly, but the ranges overlap heavily.
A coordinator hired near the top of the first range could earn more than a Coordinator II placed near the bottom of the next range. A senior coordinator can also earn less than an experienced project-focused coordinator whose narrower posting begins at $30 an hour.
That is not necessarily an error.
Johns Hopkins states in these postings that compensation depends on equity and experience among roles with similar scope and responsibility. A title indicates the general level, while final placement can reflect prior work, technical knowledge, department needs, and internal salary relationships.
What the annualized figures leave out
The $76,669 figure at the top of the Senior Administrative Coordinator range is a calculation, not a salary promised by Johns Hopkins.
It assumes:
- 40 paid hours every week;
- employment for all 52 weeks;
- no unpaid absence;
- no change in hours;
- no overtime or additional compensation.
The Administrative Coordinator II posting does specify a 40-hour day-shift schedule, making annualization more defensible for that particular role. Even there, the selected applicant’s actual rate remains unknown.
Keep the distinction narrow.
A hiring range shows where compensation may be placed. It does not reveal the average wage among current workers, the likely initial offer, or the time required to reach the maximum.
The same title may also carry another range outside Baltimore. A grant-funded Administrative Coordinator opening at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg listed $17.11 to $27.37 an hour, below the current Baltimore range.
Location changes the market.
How Hopkins compares with administrative-assistant pay
BLS reported a $47,460 median annual wage for secretaries and administrative assistants in May 2024. Medical secretaries and administrative assistants had a lower median of $44,640, while executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants earned $74,260.
The Hopkins coordinator ranges cross those national benchmarks.
The ordinary Administrative Coordinator range annualizes from roughly $39,250 to $64,792. Its lower part falls below the national administrative-assistant median, while its upper part sits well above the medical-secretary median.
The Senior Administrative Coordinator maximum approaches the BLS executive-assistant median.
That comparison is useful but imperfect.
A Johns Hopkins coordinator may handle personnel forms, departmental policies, payroll-related documents, scheduling, research administration, patient-facing work, or leadership support. Johns Hopkins describes the category as including both routine and complex administrative duties, with project data, payroll and personnel forms, and department-policy questions among the examples.
BLS categories are broader and nationally aggregated. They combine employers, locations, experience levels, and industries that may not match an academic medical center.
The official vacancy is the better source for a specific job. BLS is the better source for occupational context.
Why administrative coordinator is a broad title
The current postings show materially different jobs under similar names.
The Baltimore Administrative Coordinator II role requires a high school diploma or equivalent, three years of relevant healthcare or medical-office experience, Microsoft Office proficiency, familiarity with databases and spreadsheets, and the ability to handle confidential information while dealing with patients, staff, and hospital leadership.
The Columbia Administrative Coordinator/Project Manager role places more weight on Word, Excel, Access, QuickBooks, and experience supporting benefits administration. Its published rate is $30 to $35 an hour, a narrower and higher band than the ordinary coordinator posting.
The grant-funded Florida role emphasizes councils, agendas, action items, stakeholder communication, and research or operational support. The posting explicitly says continued employment depends on continuing grant funding.
Same family. Different risk.
A coordinator supporting hospital leadership may be paid from operating revenue. A coordinator attached to a cancer grant may depend on the life of that award. The title does not reveal the funding source unless the posting says so.
Where the headline number misleads
“Johns Hopkins administrative coordinators make up to $36.86 an hour” is sourced and incomplete.
That figure belongs to a Senior Administrative Coordinator posting. It should not be presented as the normal rate for an entry coordinator or patient-service employee.
The lower-end headline can also distort the picture.
A Patient Service Coordinator III posting listed the same $18.87 to $31.15 range as the ordinary Administrative Coordinator role, but its duties focus on scheduling, registration, billing systems, patient interaction, and automated healthcare administration. It required a high school diploma and one year of experience.
That position should not be treated as interchangeable with an executive assistant, senior coordinator, project manager, or postsecondary administrator.
The most important pay variables are:
- coordinator level;
- hospital, university, or affiliate;
- healthcare or research specialization;
- project and budget responsibility;
- years of relevant experience;
- grant-funded versus continuing operations;
- geographic market.
A generic myJH administrative salary erases those differences.
Support work and management are separate labor markets
BLS reported a $108,390 median wage for administrative services managers in May 2024. The bottom 10% earned below $64,740, while the top 10% earned above $200,010.
That occupation is not the next automatic step above Administrative Coordinator.
Administrative services managers direct organizational support operations, which may include records, mail, office services, facilities, security, contracts, or other business functions. They typically carry broader budget, staff, policy, and operational responsibility than an individual coordinator.
The salary gap shows the size of the responsibility gap.
The upper end of the Senior Administrative Coordinator range annualizes to about $76,669, while the BLS administrative-services-manager median is $108,390. The difference is approximately $31,721.
That comparison does not prove that Johns Hopkins managers earn the BLS median. It shows why “administration” should not be treated as one occupation.
Support roles coordinate work. Management roles own larger parts of the operation.
Healthcare administration creates another ceiling
Medical and health services managers had a $117,960 national median annual wage in May 2024, according to BLS.
Healthcare managers may oversee departments, practices, clinical programs, finances, staffing, compliance, or service delivery. Their work often requires a bachelor’s degree and prior administrative or clinical experience, while senior positions may prefer graduate education.
This produces a plausible career path from coordination into management, but not a guaranteed one.
An administrative coordinator can gain experience with scheduling, budgeting, personnel processes, patient access, project work, and regulatory procedures. Those skills may support future applications to supervisory or managerial jobs.
The missing step is responsibility.
A coordinator who performs complex tasks is not automatically functioning as a medical and health services manager. Management classification usually requires authority over operations, staff, budgets, programs, or policy execution.
Experience opens the route. It does not complete it.
Postsecondary administration is another comparison
Johns Hopkins University also employs administrators outside the hospital system.
BLS reported a $103,960 median annual wage for postsecondary education administrators in May 2024. The bottom 10% earned below $63,820, while the top 10% earned above $212,420. Employment is projected to grow 2% from 2024 through 2034, with approximately 15,100 openings each year.
This category includes admissions, registrar, student affairs, academic affairs, and other university management functions.
It should not be used as the benchmark for every department coordinator.
A coordinator processing forms or arranging meetings may work inside higher education without being classified as a postsecondary education administrator. BLS generally places administrators at a management level with broader authority and often higher educational requirements.
The employer is the same. The occupation is not.
What current vacancy counts reveal
Johns Hopkins Medicine’s clerical and administrative support page displayed 21 active jobs when reviewed. The listings included administrative coordinators, executive assistants, customer-service representatives, patient-service roles, and other support jobs.
That count is a snapshot.
It does not represent annual hiring, workforce expansion, or employee turnover. A posting may replace a departing worker, cover a temporary need, or remain listed while the hiring decision is underway.
The mix is more useful than the number.
Administrative work at Johns Hopkins includes:
- executive and leadership support;
- patient registration and scheduling;
- research and grant coordination;
- payroll and personnel documentation;
- project support;
- departmental communication;
- benefits and finance assistance.
One occupational average cannot represent all of them.
Automation changes the work before it removes it
The Patient Service Coordinator III posting says many administrative tasks are being accelerated through automated scheduling, registration, and billing systems, requiring coordinators to be proficient with the relevant computer platforms.
That is a concrete sign of occupational change.
Automation does not simply eliminate clerical tasks. It shifts work toward exception handling, customer communication, data quality, system navigation, and troubleshooting.
BLS projects overall employment of secretaries and administrative assistants to show little or no change from 2024 to 2034, while still producing about 358,300 openings annually, mostly because workers leave the occupation or labor force.
The market is not disappearing.
Routine work is being compressed, while roles involving healthcare systems, confidential information, executive support, coordination, and interpersonal judgment remain harder to automate fully.
This helps explain why a Coordinator II posting can require database knowledge and healthcare-office experience even though the formal education requirement remains a high school diploma.
BLS work-requirement data adds context
The BLS Occupational Requirements Survey reported that, in 2025, prior experience was required for 65.3% of secretaries and administrative assistants outside the legal, medical, and executive categories. On-the-job training was required for 87.3%, while a high school diploma was required for 79.6%.
The same survey found that employees could choose between sitting and standing for critical tasks in 86.7% of these jobs. Workers spent an average of 89% of the workday sitting.
These details align with the Hopkins postings.
Formal degree requirements can be modest, but experience and organization-specific training remain important. The work may be physically light while requiring sustained concentration, communication, confidentiality, and familiarity with complex digital systems.
Low physical strain does not mean low operational consequence.
A scheduling mistake, mishandled personnel document, or inaccurate patient record can move through a healthcare organization quickly.
Grant-funded roles carry a different risk
The Florida cancer-area coordinator posting is explicit: the role is temporary in nature, and continued employment depends on the grant remaining funded.
That caveat changes the effective value of the offer.
The position pays $17.11 to $27.37 an hour, annualizing to approximately $35,589 to $56,930 at 40 hours a week. A permanent operating-role range may look similar while providing a different level of continuity.
The salary alone cannot show the distinction.
Grant-funded positions can provide specialized research or program experience. They can also end when the award expires, is reduced, or is not renewed.
For Johns Hopkins, that risk became visible during the federal funding disruptions that affected research programs in 2025 and 2026. A role’s funding language deserves as much attention as its maximum hourly rate.
Why local wage data matters
BLS reported that workers across the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metropolitan area earned a mean of $36.72 an hour in May 2025, above the national average of $33.54. Management occupations averaged $68.30 an hour in the area.
Those are averages across all workers in broad groups, not administrative benchmarks.
The figure does show that Baltimore is not a low-wage labor market when measured across occupations. Johns Hopkins competes with government agencies, universities, hospitals, nonprofits, professional-services firms, and employers in the Washington-Baltimore corridor.
An administrative range starting below $20 an hour may therefore compete differently from one beginning above $30, even when both jobs carry a Johns Hopkins name.
Location, specialization, and level determine whether the range aligns with the relevant market.
What public data cannot answer
The reviewed sources do not reveal:
- median pay across all Johns Hopkins coordinators;
- average placement within each range;
- typical annual raise;
- time from Coordinator I to II or senior level;
- internal promotion rate;
- turnover by administrative category;
- pay differences by department;
- whether hybrid and on-site roles receive different rates;
- the number of applicants per vacancy.
Official postings provide current ranges, not workforce distributions.
BLS provides national or metropolitan occupational measures, not employer-specific outcomes. Live vacancy pages show recruitment activity, not net headcount growth.
A precise estimate must remain job-specific.
Frequently asked questions
Does myJH determine administrative pay?
No. The employing Johns Hopkins entity does.
What does a Johns Hopkins Administrative Coordinator earn?
A current Baltimore posting listed $18.87 to $31.15 an hour.
What is the Coordinator II range?
The reviewed Baltimore position listed $20.52 to $33.88 an hour and required three years of relevant healthcare or medical-office experience.
What does a Senior Administrative Coordinator earn?
The current posting listed $22.33 to $36.86 an hour.
How does that compare with BLS data?
BLS reported a $47,460 median for secretaries and administrative assistants and $74,260 for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in May 2024.
Do administrative managers earn more?
Nationally, yes. BLS reported a $108,390 median for administrative services managers, but those jobs carry broader operational and management responsibility.
Are all Johns Hopkins coordinator roles permanent?
No. At least one current cancer-area coordinator posting states that the position is grant-funded and dependent on continued funding.
Are administrative jobs being automated?
Some routine scheduling, registration, and billing processes are increasingly automated. Hopkins postings indicate that coordinators must work effectively with those systems, while BLS continues to project substantial replacement openings.
The most defensible pay estimate is the range attached to the exact Johns Hopkins role, level, location, and funding source, compared with the BLS category that matches the actual duties rather than the word “administrative.”
