Executive Assistant salary in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA

Pay in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre against Pennsylvania and the US

Executive assistants at the 90th percentile earn $98,710, 2.2 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.2. The middle half of executive assistants in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre earns $53,230–$77,730. The mean ($70,310) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $24,500 wide, against $26,080 across Pennsylvania and $33,000 nationally: employers in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an executive assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $11,120 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $13,380, or about $17,265 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 $76,590 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and the Pennsylvania statewide median of $75,270 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

At the $64,350 median, a local hire costs about $83,032 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,682 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

Our open executive assistant roles pay $800–$1,100 a month under a direct contract. The one-time fee is $2,500³ with a 180-day replacement; paying through Deel adds $49 a month⁴. Change any number below to match your plan.

A local hire here costs about 5.7 times as much as a remote hire in year one at the midpoint of our range. From year two, when the fee drops out, it is 6.9 times the remote figure of $11,988. About the candidates: most apply through our assessment platform with a written and a spoken English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff interviews every shortlisted candidate live, in English, before you meet them.

Other roles in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

Of the 17 roles we track in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($65,360) and office managers ($62,400). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,820.

Measured against the US median, executive assistants rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (-16.0%), between payroll specialists (-15.8%) and sales development representatives (-19.5%). The typical role here is at -10.0%, so, measured against the US, executive assistants cost less in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre than the area's general pay level would suggest. Executive assistants hold 1.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, 2.3% across Pennsylvania and 2.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Pennsylvania

Across the 20 areas of Pennsylvania with data for this job, the median runs from $54,080 in the Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area to $79,490 in Philadelphia-Camden, a gap of $25,410 a year. All 4 areas in Pennsylvania with more executive assistants than Scranton-Wilkes-Barre also pay more, among them Philadelphia-Camden, PA-NJ ($79,490) and Pittsburgh, PA ($69,030).

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre is #142 of 506 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Pennsylvania, Amarillo and Augusta-Richmond County pay just above Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and Elizabethtown and Fairbanks-College just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre. Of the three markets with about as many executive assistants, all three pay more.

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