Administrative Assistant salary in Elkhart-Goshen, IN

Pay in Elkhart-Goshen against Indiana and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $59,410, 1.9 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in Elkhart-Goshen earns $37,130–$48,410. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $11,280 wide, against $13,190 across Indiana and $19,170 nationally: employers in Elkhart-Goshen pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,130 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $5,150, or about $6,645 once benefits are added. 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 Elkhart-Goshen, and the Indiana statewide median of $44,270 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Elkhart-Goshen

At the $43,260 median, a local hire costs about $55,819 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,559 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 Elkhart-Goshen

Of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($46,960) and data entry specialists ($41,390). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,640.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen (-9.0%), between accountants (-7.5%) and medical administrative assistants (-10.9%). The typical role here is at -7.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 8.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Elkhart-Goshen, 7.5% across Indiana and 10.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $38,080 in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area to $47,270 in Lafayette-West Lafayette, a gap of $9,190 a year. Of the 8 areas in Indiana with more administrative assistants than Elkhart-Goshen, 4 pay less, the largest of them the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($39,280), the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,080) and the Central Indiana nonmetro area ($38,150).

Elkhart-Goshen against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Elkhart-Goshen is #388 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Waco and Beaumont-Port Arthur pay just above Elkhart-Goshen and Savannah and Niles just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Elkhart-Goshen. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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