Administrative Assistant salary in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area

Pay in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area earns $38,000–$49,060. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $58,440, only 1.7 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 $11,060 wide, against $13,670 across Wisconsin and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area 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 $4,340 over it, while the 25th sits $6,720 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $5,600 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $47,710 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area

At the $44,720 median, a local hire costs about $57,703 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,983 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 Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($46,850) and customer support specialists ($43,780). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,170.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #4 of the 15 roles we track in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area (-5.9%), between customer support specialists (-2.2%) and bookkeepers (-6.2%). The typical role here is at -9.9%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 13.0% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area, 10.1% across Wisconsin and 10.9% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $44,720 in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area to $51,410 in Madison, a gap of $6,690 a year. All 15 areas in Wisconsin with more administrative assistants than the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area also pay more, among them Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($48,480) and Madison, WI ($51,410).

the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area is #482 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Wisconsin, Kankakee and Fort Wayne pay just above the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area and Burlington and Prescott Valley-Prescott just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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