Chiropractic Office Manager job description
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Offices of chiropractors employed 1,060 medical and health services managers in May 2025, next to 35,860 chiropractors on the same payrolls. Federal wage data does not break out chiropractic office managers, so that row is the closest honest figure, and it pays far below the occupation as a whole: a median of $64,990 in chiropractic offices against $123,860 across all industries, an occupation O*NET describes running hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, and public health agencies. The tenth percentile in chiropractic offices was $49,990 and the ninetieth $155,360. The practices are small. The 2025 practice analysis by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners found 49 percent of chiropractors in solo practice and 36 percent in multi-doctor offices, and the office manager runs the business side of offices like those so the doctor can treat patients.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Supervising and evaluating the staff ranks first among the tasks O*NET records, followed by building and maintaining the computerized record-keeping that stores patient and personnel data and produces reports. Money is the next block: budgets, authorizing spending, setting rates for services, and financial reporting. Managers set staff schedules around the patient load, recruit, hire, and train, and write the office's policies and procedures. They also keep up with changes in regulation and health insurance, which in a chiropractic office includes knowing that Medicare Part B covers spinal manipulation to correct a subluxation and not the x-rays or massage the doctor may order. The Handbook notes that chiropractors who own their practice carry marketing, hiring, and record keeping themselves, and that is the load a manager takes on.
Common Skills and Technologies
O*NET rates speaking and critical thinking highest for health services managers, with reading comprehension, writing, and monitoring close behind. The in-demand software is Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and the Office suite. Postings for the occupation also name the records systems eClinicalWorks and Epic Systems and the accounting package QuickBooks.
Education, Training, and Career Path
The occupation is in O*NET's Job Zone Four. A bachelor's degree was the requirement 46.4 percent of respondents gave, a master's 21.4 percent, and an associate's 10.7 percent. Those figures describe the whole occupation, most of it outside chiropractic. Related occupations include health informatics specialists and social and community service managers.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 11-9111.00 Medical and Health Services Managers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9111.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 11-9111, offices of chiropractors, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Chiropractors, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/chiropractors.htm. American Chiropractic Association summary of the 2025 practice analysis, https://www.acatoday.org/news-publications/chiropractic-in-2025-findings-from-the-nbce-practice-analysis/.