New York Public Authorities / New York State Thruway Authority / Administrative Assistant 1
Job-title file
Administrative Assistant 1
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
22 employees hold this title in New York State Thruway Authority. Median total compensation for the role is $46,934, below the department median of $80,290.
- Employees
- 22
- Total payroll
- $915.9K
- Role median
- $46,934
- Agency median
- $80,290
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 22 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 1 pay vs. New York
Across all employers in New York, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 122,490 people — is $49,600. New York State Thruway Authority pays a median base salary of $59,510 for this role, 20% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where New York State Thruway Authority sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in New York, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows New York State Thruway Authority’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. New York State Thruway Authority’s median base salary is 25% above that national figure, about the 78th 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 New York range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 24 of 34 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 New York State Thruway Authority is $49,818, 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 New York Public Authorities
Administrative Assistant 1 is held in 2 New York Public Authorities departments. In New York State Thruway Authority, the median of $46,934 ranks #2 of 2.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Administrative Assistant 1 role in other New York Public Authoritiesdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Administrative Assistant beyond New York Public Authorities
This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In New York Public Authorities, the median of $50,391 ranks #18 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of New York Public Authorities →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.
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