Administrative Assistant salary in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area

Pay in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area against New Hampshire and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area earns $43,610–$58,310. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,290, only 1.6 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $14,700 wide, against $15,800 across New Hampshire and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,590 over the median, the 25th only $5,110 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,374 a year in employer cost. 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 25th percentile and the median in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $48,080 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area

At the $48,720 median, a local hire costs about $62,865 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,145 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 the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($51,400) and medical administrative assistants ($48,570). Project Coordinator is the highest at $87,150.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area (+2.5%), between payroll specialists (+3.3%) and bookkeepers (+1.6%). The typical role here is at -5.2%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 17.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, 12.1% across New Hampshire and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Hampshire

Across the 4 areas of New Hampshire with data for this job, the median runs from $47,010 in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area to $48,720 in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, a gap of $1,710 a year. All 2 areas in New Hampshire with more administrative assistants than the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area pay less, among them Manchester-Nashua, NH ($47,400) and the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area ($47,600).

the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area is #240 of 520 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside New Hampshire, Ames and Phoenix-Mesa pay just above the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area and Lansing-East Lansing and Kingston just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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