Administrative Assistant

Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 28,540 people — is $59,330. Environment Department pays a median base salary of $59,490 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 51st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Environment Department is $60,584, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Administrative Assistant is held in 4 City of Boston departments. In Environment Department, the median of $60,584 ranks #4 of 4.

This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In City of Boston, the median of $77,773 ranks #3 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of City of Boston →