Administrative Assistant salary in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA

Pay in Brunswick-St. Simons against Georgia and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $53,670 or more, 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of administrative assistants in Brunswick-St. Simons earns $29,910–$45,840. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $15,930 wide, against $19,960 across Georgia and $19,170 nationally: employers in Brunswick-St. Simons pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $9,370 a year in pay and about $12,090 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,560 in pay. 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Brunswick-St. Simons, and the Georgia statewide median of $41,600 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Brunswick-St. Simons

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 $10,588 to the $36,470 median and brings it to $47,058 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Brunswick-St. Simons

Of the 14 roles we track in Brunswick-St. Simons, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($37,670) and customer support specialists ($36,200). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,070.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #12 of the 14 roles we track in Brunswick-St. Simons (-23.3%), between paralegals (-19.4%) and project coordinators (-24.7%). The typical role here is at -17.8%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost less in Brunswick-St. Simons than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 11.4% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Brunswick-St. Simons, 8.8% across Georgia and 11.0% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $34,920 in the East Georgia nonmetro area to $45,270 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs, a gap of $10,350 a year. Of the 15 areas in Georgia with more administrative assistants than Brunswick-St. Simons, 4 pay less, the largest of them the South Georgia nonmetro area ($35,940), the East Georgia nonmetro area ($34,920) and Athens-Clarke County, GA ($36,110).

Brunswick-St. Simons against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Brunswick-St. Simons is #483 of 520 US areas for this job. It is a small market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Georgia, Houma-Bayou Cane and Laredo pay just above Brunswick-St. Simons and Eagle Pass and Jonesboro just below. All four are within $610 a year of the median in Brunswick-St. Simons. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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