School District of Philadelphia / School Climate and Culture / Project Assistant
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in School Climate and Culture. Median total compensation for the role is $56,389, below the department median of $77,717.
Compared with the local labor market
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. School Climate and Culture pays a median base salary of $56,389 for this role, 29% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
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 School Climate and Culture’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. School Climate and Culture’s median base salary is 26% below that national figure, about the 18th 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 School Climate and Culture is $56,389, 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
Project Assistant is held in 14 School District of Philadelphia departments. In School Climate and Culture, the median of $56,389 ranks #1 of 14.
Median total compensation for the Project Assistant 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 5 jurisdictions. In School District of Philadelphia, the median of $52,028 ranks #2 of 5. See Project Assistant across all of School District of Philadelphia →
Median total compensation for comparable Project Assistantroles 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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Project Assistant/School Climate and Culture
Source-specific fields
At School Climate and Culture, Sydney Norwood serves as a Project Assistant. Their 2026 pay totaled $56,389. Union affiliation: Non-Represented.