Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area earns $39,540–$55,570. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,630, 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 $16,030 wide, between the figure for Colorado ($15,330) and the US figure ($19,170).

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $7,370 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $8,660, or about $11,174 once benefits are added. 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 Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $48,690 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

At the $46,910 median, a local hire costs about $60,529 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,619 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 Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($47,510) and payroll specialists ($46,590). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area (-1.3%), between HR assistants (-1.2%) and customer support specialists (-2.4%). The typical role here is at -2.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 14.7% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, 9.3% across Colorado and 11.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $44,450 in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area to $51,060 in Boulder, a gap of $6,610 a year. All 5 areas in Colorado with more administrative assistants than the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area also pay more, among them Denver-Aurora, CO ($49,760) and Colorado Springs, CO ($47,010).

the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area is #229 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Albuquerque and Eau Claire pay just above the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area and Kansas City and Charlotte-Concord just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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