Administrative Assistant salary in Lima, OH

Pay in Lima against Ohio and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Lima earns $37,000–$53,550. The top tenth earns $62,230 or more, 1.9 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.0 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $16,550 wide, between the figure for Ohio ($15,540) and the US figure ($19,170).

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $9,090 a year in pay and about $11,729 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,460 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 Lima, and the Ohio statewide median of $46,230 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lima

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 $12,908 to the $44,460 median and brings it to $57,368 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 Lima

Of the 16 roles we track in Lima, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($46,570) and customer support specialists ($42,340). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,670.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in Lima (-6.5%), between virtual receptionists (-6.3%) and bookkeepers (-8.1%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Lima than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 13.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lima, 10.8% across Ohio and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $41,580 in Youngstown-Warren to $47,870 in Columbus, a gap of $6,290 a year. Of the 14 areas in Ohio with more administrative assistants than Lima, 7 pay less, the largest of them the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area ($42,580), the West Northwestern Ohio nonmetro area ($44,350) and the Southern Ohio nonmetro area ($44,130).

Lima against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lima is #466 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Ohio, Saginaw and Birmingham pay just above Lima and Elmira and Grand Island just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Lima. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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