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California / Parks and Recreation / Accounting Administrator I (Specialist)

Job-title file

Accounting Administrator I (Specialist)

Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.

9 employees hold this title in Parks and Recreation. Median total compensation for the role is $97,150, above the department median of $27,643.

Employees
9
Total payroll
$889.7K
Role median
$97,150
Agency median
$27,643
Comparison
Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$83,499$126,708+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 9 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Accounting Administrator I (Specialist) pay vs. California

Across all employers in California, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers — about 149,230 people — is $77,590. Parks and Recreation pays a median base salary of $96,550 for this role, 24% above that figureabout the 74th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Parks and Recreation sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$50,870
$62,660
$77,590
$97,080
$121,650
Parks and Recreation median · $96,550

The bar is the range of annual wages for First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Parks and Recreation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers — about 1,436,680 people — is $69,500. Parks and Recreation’s median base salary is 39% above that national figure, about the 84th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$45,610
$55,950
$69,500
$85,090
$104,710
Parks and Recreation median · $96,550

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 California range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 22 of 26 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 Parks and Recreation is $100,033, 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.

Compare departments

This role across California

Accounting Administrator I (Specialist) is held in 56 California departments. In Parks and Recreation, the median of $97,150 ranks #8 of 56.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Median total compensation for the Accounting Administrator I (Specialist) role in other Californiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Record list

Employees with this title

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Suong Nguyen

Accounting Administrator I (Specialist)/Parks and Recreation

2023 total comp
$131,646
Base pay
$92,184
Overtime
$33,390
Other pay
$6,072
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$131,646
Employment type
Full-Time
Union / bargaining unit
R01
Work county
Sacramento
Middle name
N

Source-specific fields

Base Pay
$7,815
Cs/csu
Cs
Position Number
5490774552007
Salary Total
$7,815
Total Pay
$131,646

At Parks and Recreation, Suong Nguyen serves as a Accounting Administrator I (Specialist). They work full-time. Their 2023 pay totaled $131,646. They are represented by R01.