Administrative Assistant salary in Longview-Kelso, WA

Pay in Longview-Kelso against Washington and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Longview-Kelso earns $47,630–$62,860. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $66,230, only 1.6 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($55,970) 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 $15,230 wide, against $15,780 across Washington and $19,170 nationally: employers in Longview-Kelso 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 $5,280 over it, while the 25th sits $9,950 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $6,813 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Longview-Kelso, and the Washington statewide median of $57,330 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Longview-Kelso

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 $16,717 to the $57,580 median and brings it to $74,297 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 Longview-Kelso

Of the 13 roles we track in Longview-Kelso, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($58,830) and bookkeepers ($56,620). Project Coordinator is the highest at $101,440.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #2 of the 13 roles we track in Longview-Kelso (+21.1%), between medical administrative assistants (+28.1%) and office managers (+18.0%). The typical role here is at +10.5%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Longview-Kelso than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 13.6% of the jobs in these 13 roles in Longview-Kelso, 9.7% across Washington and 11.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Washington

Across the 13 areas of Washington with data for this job, the median runs from $49,550 in Spokane-Spokane Valley to $60,230 in Seattle-Tacoma, a gap of $10,680 a year. Of the 11 areas in Washington with more administrative assistants than Longview-Kelso, 9 pay less, the largest of them Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA ($49,550), Olympia-Lacey, WA ($54,320) and the Western Washington nonmetro area ($52,040).

Longview-Kelso against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Longview-Kelso is #484 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Washington, Santa Rosa-Petaluma and Napa pay just above Longview-Kelso and Santa Cruz-Watsonville and Bridgeport-Stamford just below. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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