Administrative Assistant

Across all employers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 19,180 people — is $54,080. Financial Assistance Services pays a median base salary of $52,300 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 44th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 36 of 42 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Financial Assistance Services is $52,019, 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 16 Ramsey County, Minnesota departments. In Financial Assistance Services, the median of $52,019 ranks #8 of 16.

This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Ramsey County, Minnesota, the median of $55,166 ranks #4 of 7. See Administrative Assistant across all of Ramsey County, Minnesota →