Administrative Assistant salary in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Pay in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against Utah and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $64,290, 2.0 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area earns $38,640–$59,330. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $20,690 wide, wider than in Utah as a whole ($17,330) and the US ($19,170), so what a administrative assistant earns in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $11,020 a year in pay and about $14,219 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $9,670 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 25th percentile and the median in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, and the Utah statewide median of $47,050 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

At the $48,310 median, a local hire costs about $62,335 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,025 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 Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($56,470) and bookkeepers ($45,850). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,540.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area (+1.6%); marketing specialists come last (-23.7%). The typical role here is at -9.5%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 11.0% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 7.8% across Utah and 11.0% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 7 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $43,400 in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area to $48,310 in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, a gap of $4,910 a year. All 5 areas in Utah with more administrative assistants than the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area pay less, among them Salt Lake City-Murray, UT ($47,910) and Provo-Orem, UT ($46,120).

the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area is #426 of 520 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Utah, Reno and Medford pay just above the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area and Midland and Champaign-Urbana just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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