Administrative Assistant salary in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

Pay in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area against New York and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area earns $40,570–$55,250. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,250, only 1.7 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 $14,680 wide, against $15,180 across New York and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $8,380 a year in pay and about $10,813 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,300 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, and the New York statewide median of $49,600 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

At the $46,870 median, a local hire costs about $60,477 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,607 here. 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 the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between paralegals ($47,850) and medical administrative assistants ($43,700). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,210.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area (-1.4%), between data entry specialists (+1.8%) and bookkeepers (-1.4%). The typical role here is at -4.4%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 17.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, 11.1% across New York and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New York

Across the 16 areas of New York with data for this job, the median runs from $44,450 in Elmira to $51,440 in New York-Newark, a gap of $6,990 a year. Of the 8 areas in New York with more administrative assistants than the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY ($46,780), Rochester, NY ($46,770) and the Southwest New York nonmetro area ($45,350).

the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area is #152 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside New York, Albuquerque and Eau Claire pay just above the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area and Kansas City and Charlotte-Concord just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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