School District of Philadelphia / High School for Creative and Performing Arts / Secretary I
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Median total compensation for the role is $50,542, below the department median of $80,068.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 32,850 people — is $48,850. High School for Creative and Performing Arts pays a median base salary of $50,542 for this role, 3% above that figure — about the 54th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows High School for Creative and Performing Arts’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. High School for Creative and Performing Arts’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 57th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at High School for Creative and Performing Arts is $50,542, 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.
Compare departments
Secretary I is held in 218 School District of Philadelphia departments. In High School for Creative and Performing Arts, the median of $50,542 ranks #4 of 218.
Median total compensation for the Secretary I role in other School District of Philadelphiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 27 jurisdictions. In School District of Philadelphia, the median of $47,674 ranks #14 of 27. See Secretary across all of School District of Philadelphia →
Median total compensation for comparable Secretaryroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Secretary I/High School for Creative and Performing Arts
Source-specific fields
Lynette Barnhill is a Secretary I at High School for Creative and Performing Arts. 2026 total compensation came to $50,542. They are represented by Pft.