Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area

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

The middle half of administrative assistants in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area earns $40,520–$54,040. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $59,600, 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 $13,520 wide, against $15,800 across New Hampshire and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Southwestern New Hampshire 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 $7,030 a year in pay and about $9,071 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,490 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 Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $48,080 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwestern New Hampshire 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 $13,648 to the $47,010 median and brings it to $60,658 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 Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($48,410) and customer support specialists ($45,220). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,120.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area (-1.1%), between customer support specialists (+1.0%) and sales development representatives (-1.3%). The typical role here is at -3.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 16.3% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area, 12.4% across New Hampshire and 11.1% 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 3 areas in New Hampshire with more administrative assistants than the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area also pay more, among them Manchester-Nashua, NH ($47,400) and the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area ($47,600).

the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area is #417 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside New Hampshire, Colorado Springs and Racine-Mount Pleasant pay just above the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area and Janesville-Beloit and Wausau just below. All four are within $10 a year of the median in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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