Rhode Island / Public Utilities / Administrative Assistant
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in Public Utilities. Median total compensation for the role is $54,276, above the department median of $27,444.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Rhode Island, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 5,200 people — is $52,140. Public Utilities pays a median base salary of $54,276 for this role, 4% above that figure — about the 56th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in Rhode Island, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Public Utilities’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. Public Utilities’s median base salary is 14% above that national figure, about the 66th 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 Rhode Island range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Public Utilities is $54,276, 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
Administrative Assistant is held in 16 Rhode Island departments. In Public Utilities, the median of $54,276 ranks #2 of 16.
Median total compensation for the Administrative Assistant role in other Rhode Islanddepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In Rhode Island, the median of $18,230 ranks #28 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of Rhode Island →
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
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Administrative Assistant/Public Utilities
Source-specific fields
Machaela Seaton is a Administrative Assistant at Public Utilities. 2024 total compensation came to $54,276.