Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Cleveland, OH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,450.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Cleveland earn more.
$46,120 in Cleveland buys what $49,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Cleveland's regional price parity is 93.9 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Ohio
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Cleveland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus | $47,870 | $50,100 | 95.5 | +2.1% |
| Cincinnati | $47,850 | $50,200 | 95.4 | +2.2% |
| Toledo | $46,780 | $51,200 | 91.5 | +4.2% |
| Dayton | $46,310 | $50,000 | 92.7 | +1.7% |
| Akron | $46,140 | $49,400 | 93.4 | +0.6% |
| Cleveland This page | $46,120 | $49,100 | 93.9 | — |
| Sandusky | $44,600 | $50,000 | 89.3 | +1.7% |
| Lima | $44,460 | $49,600 | 89.7 | +1.0% |
Price parity and difference against Cleveland 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
- 10,450 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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