Compared with the local labor market
Hearing Officer pay vs. the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers — about 1,230 people — is $130,960. Administrative Trials and Hearings pays a median base salary of $49,817 for this role, 62% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Administrative Trials and Hearings sits in the local pay range
$90,020
$105,930
$130,960
$132,800
$172,620
Administrative Trials and Hearings median · $49,817
The bar is the range of annual wages for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Administrative Trials and Hearings’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers — about 16,370 people — is $117,860. Administrative Trials and Hearings’s median base salary is 58% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$61,110
$81,140
$117,860
$159,680
$207,480
Administrative Trials and Hearings median · $49,817
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 159 of 209 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Administrative Trials and Hearings is $45,153, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.