Administrative Assistant salary in Salisbury, MD

Pay in Salisbury against Maryland and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Salisbury earns $38,930–$50,520. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $60,260, only 1.7 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($46,980) 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 only $11,590 wide, against $18,260 across Maryland and $19,170 nationally: employers in Salisbury 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 $3,380 over it, while the 25th sits $8,210 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,361 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 Salisbury, and the Maryland statewide median of $48,680 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Salisbury

At the $47,140 median, a local hire costs about $60,826 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,686 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 Salisbury

Of the 15 roles we track in Salisbury, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($49,540) and medical administrative assistants ($43,710). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,400.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #3 of the 15 roles we track in Salisbury (-0.8%), between HR assistants (+0.6%) and bookkeepers (-2.2%). The typical role here is at -8.8%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Salisbury than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 19.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Salisbury, 18.0% across Maryland and 10.9% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maryland

Across the 5 areas of Maryland with data for this job, the median runs from $43,740 in Hagerstown-Martinsburg to $49,220 in Baltimore-Columbia, a gap of $5,480 a year. Of the 4 areas in Maryland with more administrative assistants than Salisbury, 2 pay less: the Maryland nonmetro area ($46,340) and Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV ($43,740).

Salisbury against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Salisbury is #294 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Maryland, Vineland and Atlantic City-Hammonton pay just above Salisbury and Fort Collins-Loveland and La Crosse-Onalaska just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Salisbury. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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