Compared with the local labor market
Executive Secretary pay vs. the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area
Across all employers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, the median wage for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants — about 7,150 people — is $79,490. Office of Specialized Services pays a median base salary of $61,241 for this role, 23% below that figure — about the 16th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Office of Specialized Services sits in the local pay range
$57,480
$67,380
$79,490
$93,830
$102,690
Office of Specialized Services median · $61,241
The bar is the range of annual wages for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 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 Office of Specialized Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants — about 459,910 people — is $76,590. Office of Specialized Services’s median base salary is 20% below that national figure, about the 25th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$50,560
$61,390
$76,590
$94,390
$109,850
Office of Specialized Services median · $61,241
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 Office of Specialized Services is $61,241, 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
This role across School District of Philadelphia
Executive Secretary is held in 3 School District of Philadelphia departments. In Office of Specialized Services, the median of $61,241 ranks #3 of 3.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Executive Secretary role in other School District of Philadelphiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.