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Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

Worcester, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,310.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-6011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$75,350 · 50th
$56,20010th
$64,03025th
$75,35050th
$85,37075th
$100,70090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Worcester earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$75,350 in Worcester buys what $73,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Worcester's regional price parity is 102.5 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Worcester
Boston$85,260$78,800108.3+7.1%
Barnstable Town$79,810$81,10098.4+10.4%
Worcester This page$75,350$73,500102.5
Pittsfield$72,790$76,50095.1+4.1%
Amherst Town$72,050$71,900100.2−2.2%
Springfield$71,060$74,00096.1+0.7%

Price parity and difference against Worcester are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
1,310 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-6011, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as executive-secretaries-and-executive-administrative-assistants.

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