Administrative Assistant salary in Farmington, NM

Pay in Farmington against New Mexico and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Farmington earns $37,020–$50,220. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $59,000, only 1.8 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($45,150) 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 $13,200 wide, against $17,520 across New Mexico and $19,170 nationally: employers in Farmington 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 $4,360 over it, while the 25th sits $8,840 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $5,626 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 Farmington, and the New Mexico statewide median of $46,450 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Farmington

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 $13,314 to the $45,860 median and brings it to $59,174 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 Farmington

Of the 14 roles we track in Farmington, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($46,010) and medical administrative assistants ($39,090). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,210.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #2 of the 14 roles we track in Farmington (-3.5%), between payroll specialists (-1.8%) and paralegals (-5.6%). The typical role here is at -9.8%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Farmington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 29.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Farmington, 27.0% across New Mexico and 11.0% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Mexico

Across the 6 areas of New Mexico with data for this job, the median runs from $41,030 in Las Cruces to $50,170 in Santa Fe, a gap of $9,140 a year. Of the 5 areas in New Mexico with more administrative assistants than Farmington, 2 pay less: the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area ($42,850) and Las Cruces, NM ($41,030).

Farmington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Farmington is #266 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside New Mexico, Staunton-Stuarts Draft and Decatur pay just above Farmington and Jacksonville and Greensboro-High Point just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Farmington. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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