Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 28,540.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.
$59,330 in Boston buys what $54,800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston This page | $59,330 | $54,800 | 108.3 | — |
| Barnstable Town | $55,040 | $56,000 | 98.4 | +2.1% |
| Worcester | $52,450 | $51,200 | 102.5 | −6.6% |
| Springfield | $51,460 | $53,600 | 96.1 | −2.2% |
| Amherst Town | $51,100 | $51,000 | 100.2 | −7.0% |
| Pittsfield | $49,990 | $52,600 | 95.1 | −4.1% |
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
- 28,540 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-6014, Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive. Mapped to our taxonomy as secretaries-and-administrative-assistants-except-legal-medical-and-executive.
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