Administrative Assistant salary in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area earns $38,310–$49,920. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $59,320, 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 $11,610 wide, against $15,330 across Colorado and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado 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 $5,470 a year in pay and about $7,058 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,140 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 Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $48,690 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern and Southern Colorado 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 $12,905 to the $44,450 median and brings it to $57,355 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 the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($45,460) and data entry specialists ($42,800). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #11 of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area (-6.5%), between project coordinators (-6.1%) and accountants (-8.5%). The typical role here is at -4.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 18.0% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 10.4% across Colorado and 11.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $44,450 in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area to $51,060 in Boulder, a gap of $6,610 a year. All 7 areas in Colorado with more administrative assistants than the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area also pay more, among them Denver-Aurora, CO ($49,760) and Colorado Springs, CO ($47,010).

the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area is #326 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Grand Island and Elmira pay just above the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area and Columbus and Orlando-Kissimmee just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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