Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 16,330.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.
$51,600 in Boston buys what $47,700 buys across the country as a whole.
Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable Town | $51,940 | $52,800 | 98.4 | +10.8% |
| Boston This page | $51,600 | $47,700 | 108.3 | — |
| Pittsfield | $48,930 | $51,400 | 95.1 | +7.9% |
| Amherst Town | $47,880 | $47,800 | 100.2 | +0.2% |
| Springfield | $47,780 | $49,700 | 96.1 | +4.4% |
| Worcester | $47,290 | $46,100 | 102.5 | −3.2% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
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
- 16,330 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-6013, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as medical-secretaries-and-administrative-assistants.
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