Administrative Assistant salary in Louisville, KY-IN

Pay in Louisville against Kentucky and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $63,190, 1.9 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in Louisville earns $39,960–$54,070. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $14,110 wide, against $14,400 across Kentucky and $19,170 nationally: employers in Louisville pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $7,130 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $6,980, or about $9,006 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 Louisville, and the Kentucky statewide median of $44,200 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Louisville

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 $13,671 to the $47,090 median and brings it to $60,761 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 Louisville

Of the 17 roles we track in Louisville, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($47,990) and medical administrative assistants ($44,430). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,660.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Louisville (-0.9%), between data entry specialists (+5.4%) and paralegals (-2.6%). The typical role here is at -5.6%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Louisville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 7.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Louisville, 9.2% across Kentucky and 10.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 10 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $38,280 in the East Kentucky nonmetro area to $47,790 in Lexington-Fayette, a gap of $9,510 a year. No other area in Kentucky has as many administrative assistants, and 8 of the other 9 pay less.

Louisville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Louisville is #64 of 520 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Kentucky, La Crosse-Onalaska and Fort Collins-Loveland pay just above Louisville and Oshkosh-Neenah and Allentown-Bethlehem just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Louisville. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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