Administrative Assistant salary in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA

Pay in Mount Vernon-Anacortes against Washington and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Mount Vernon-Anacortes earns $47,820–$63,930. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $73,740, only 1.7 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($56,860) 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 $16,110 wide, between the figure for Washington ($15,780) 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 $6,950 a year in pay and about $8,968 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $9,160 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, and the Washington statewide median of $57,330 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes

At the $56,980 median, a local hire costs about $73,523 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $16,543 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 Mount Vernon-Anacortes

Of the 15 roles we track in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($57,220) and medical administrative assistants ($50,740). Project Coordinator is the highest at $108,980.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 15 roles we track in Mount Vernon-Anacortes (+19.9%); marketing specialists come last (-12.8%). The typical role here is at +9.8%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Mount Vernon-Anacortes than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 11.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, 9.4% across Washington and 10.9% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

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 10 areas in Washington with more administrative assistants than Mount Vernon-Anacortes, 8 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).

Mount Vernon-Anacortes against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Mount Vernon-Anacortes is #456 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Washington, Salinas and Bridgeport-Stamford pay just above Mount Vernon-Anacortes and Vallejo and Hartford-West Hartford just below. All four are within $1,040 a year of the median in Mount Vernon-Anacortes. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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