Compared with the local labor market
Principal Administrative Associate - Non Supervisor pay vs. the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 122,680 people — is $51,440. Department for the Aging pays a median base salary of $63,526 for this role, 23% above that figure — about the 79th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department for the Aging sits in the local pay range
$37,440
$45,140
$51,440
$61,150
$70,160
Department for the Aging median · $63,526
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department for the Aging’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 1,706,790 people — is $47,540. Department for the Aging’s median base salary is 34% above that national figure, about the 85th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$33,280
$38,830
$47,540
$58,000
$66,350
Department for the Aging median · $63,526
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Department for the Aging is $66,935, 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.