Administrative Assistant salary in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $44,270–$59,540. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $64,890, only 1.8 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $15,270 wide, against $17,150 across Alaska and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Alaska nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $10,350 over the median, the 25th only $4,920 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $13,355 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $47,540 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $48,530 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $14,281 to the $49,190 median and brings it to $63,471 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

We place executive assistants, customer support and e-commerce staff today; for administrative assistants we answer within one business day whether we can help. Enter the monthly pay you have in mind to compare it with a local hire. The fee field shows our standard fee³; Deel's contractor plan is the default payroll tool⁴.

Other roles in the Alaska nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($49,730) and customer support specialists ($47,630). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,020.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #10 of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (+3.5%), between data entry specialists (+3.7%) and accountants (+2.6%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 20.6% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 16.9% across Alaska and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $47,860 in Fairbanks-College to $49,190 in the Alaska nonmetro area, a gap of $1,330 a year. The one area in Alaska with more administrative assistants, Anchorage, AK ($48,150), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #149 of 520 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Alaska, Baltimore-Columbia and Carson City pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and El Centro and Eugene-Springfield just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

Questions

Sources

How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.