Administrative Assistant salary in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area against Wyoming and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area earns $39,490–$48,460. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,600, only 1.7 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($45,900) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,970 wide, against $11,550 across Wyoming and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,490 over it, while the 25th sits $6,480 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,213 more a year with benefits. 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 Wyoming nonmetro area, and the Wyoming statewide median of $45,450 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Wyoming 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 $13,346 to the $45,970 median and brings it to $59,316 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 Wyoming nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($47,910) and data entry specialists ($45,730). Project Coordinator is the highest at $88,090.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #3 of the 15 roles we track in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area (-3.3%), between virtual receptionists (-3.1%) and medical administrative assistants (-4.1%). The typical role here is at -9.2%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 14.4% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area, 11.0% across Wyoming and 10.9% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wyoming

Across the 4 areas of Wyoming with data for this job, the median runs from $38,600 in Cheyenne to $46,560 in the Western Wyoming nonmetro area, a gap of $7,960 a year. No other area in Wyoming has as many administrative assistants, and 1 of the other 3 pays less.

the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area is #353 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Wyoming, Winchester and Knoxville pay just above the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area and Memphis and Sioux City just below. All four are within $30 a year of the median in the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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