Administrative Assistant salary in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area

Pay in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area against Virginia and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $65,010, 2.1 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area earns $36,690–$56,580. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $19,890 wide, wider than in Virginia as a whole ($18,560) and the US ($19,170), so what a administrative assistant earns in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $10,700 a year in pay and about $13,806 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $9,190 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 the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area, and the Virginia statewide median of $47,620 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area

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 $13,320 to the $45,880 median and brings it to $59,200 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 the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between paralegals ($59,780) and bookkeepers ($45,270). Project Coordinator is the highest at $116,090.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #5 of the 14 roles we track in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area (-3.5%), between medical administrative assistants (-2.7%) and paralegals (-4.9%). The typical role here is at -6.7%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 14.1% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area, 7.5% across Virginia and 11.0% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $39,200 in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area to $53,100 in Charlottesville, a gap of $13,900 a year. Of the 11 areas in Virginia with more administrative assistants than the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area, 7 pay less, the largest of them Roanoke, VA ($45,100), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($40,510) and the Southside Virginia nonmetro area ($39,200).

the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area is #447 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Virginia, Decatur and Palm Bay-Melbourne pay just above the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area and Farmington and Jacksonville just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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