Administrative Assistant salary in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area against Michigan and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $58,990, 1.9 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area earns $36,840–$48,570. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $11,730 wide, against $14,740 across Michigan and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $5,440 a year in pay and about $7,019 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,290 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 Southern Michigan nonmetro area, and the Michigan statewide median of $46,020 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Michigan 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 $12,522 to the $43,130 median and brings it to $55,652 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 Southern Michigan nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($43,400) and medical administrative assistants ($39,170). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,590.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #9 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area (-9.3%), between bookkeepers (-7.2%) and accountants (-11.1%). The typical role here is at -9.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 14.2% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area, 10.2% across Michigan and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Michigan

Across the 19 areas of Michigan with data for this job, the median runs from $39,660 in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area to $50,600 in Ann Arbor, a gap of $10,940 a year. Of the 6 areas in Michigan with more administrative assistants than the Southern Michigan nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the Mid Michigan nonmetro area ($40,180) and Flint, MI ($42,600).

the Southern Michigan nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Michigan nonmetro area is #264 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Michigan, Savannah and Elkhart-Goshen pay just above the Southern Michigan nonmetro area and Sebastian-Vero Beach and Mansfield just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Southern Michigan nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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