Georgia / Court of Appeals / Administrative Assistant

Job-title file

Administrative Assistant

Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.

18 employees hold this title in Court of Appeals. Median total compensation for the role is $70,314, below the department median of $125,405.

Employees: 18
Total payroll: $1.2M
Role median: $70,314
Agency median: $125,405
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$20,149$80,641+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 18 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Administrative Assistant pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 44,430 people — is $41,600. Court of Appeals pays a median base salary of $71,244 for this role, 71% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Court of Appeals sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$26,330

$32,130

$41,600

$52,090

$62,090

Court of Appeals median · $71,244

The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Court of Appeals’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. Court of Appeals’s median base salary is 50% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$33,280

$38,830

$47,540

$58,000

$66,350

Court of Appeals median · $71,244

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 Georgia range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 17 of 18 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 Court of Appeals is $70,314, 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 Georgia

Administrative Assistant is held in 11 Georgia departments. In Court of Appeals, the median of $70,314 ranks #2 of 11.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Supreme Court

$70,342 · 14

Agricultural Commodity Commission for Peanuts

$63,246 · 1

Lottery Corporation, Georgia

$60,613 · 1

Atlanta Regional Commission

$54,600 · 11

Law, Department Of

$49,920 · 1

Southeastern Technical College

$45,760 · 1

Southwest Georgia Regional Commission

$38,856 · 1

Superior Courts

$25,316 · 2

Judicial Council

$17,500 · 3

Lanier Technical College

$9,668 · 15

Median total compensation for the Administrative Assistant role in other Georgiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Administrative Assistant beyond Georgia

This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $38,459 ranks #25 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of Georgia →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Los Angeles County

$142,353 · 378

City of San Jose

$126,642 · 11

City of Boston

$77,773 · 26

Chicago Public Schools

$76,425 · 9

$74,800 · 528

$73,085 · 105

$72,721 · 27

$71,808 · 287

Median total compensation for comparable Administrative 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