Administrative Assistant salary in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Pay in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against Oregon and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area earns $42,240–$55,660. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $62,670, 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 $13,420 wide, against $15,560 across Oregon and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Coast Oregon 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 $8,980 over the median, the 25th only $4,440 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,587 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, and the Oregon statewide median of $51,740 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

At the $46,680 median, a local hire costs about $60,232 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,552 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 Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($48,070) and medical administrative assistants ($46,100). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,020.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area (-1.8%), between customer support specialists (-1.5%) and bookkeepers (-3.7%). The typical role here is at -4.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 13.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, 12.1% across Oregon and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $45,380 in the Eastern Oregon nonmetro area to $55,660 in Salem, a gap of $10,280 a year. All 3 areas in Oregon with more administrative assistants than the Coast Oregon nonmetro area also pay more, among them Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA ($55,360) and Salem, OR ($55,660).

the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Coast Oregon nonmetro area is #292 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Oregon, Houston-Pasadena and Rochester pay just above the Coast Oregon nonmetro area and Coeur d'Alene and Peoria just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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