Utah / Department of Administrative Services / Administrative Assistant
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in Department of Administrative Services. Median total compensation for the role is $26,929, below the department median of $69,005.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Utah, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 14,870 people — is $47,050. Department of Administrative Services pays a median base salary of $48,921 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 Utah, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Administrative Services’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. Department of Administrative Services’s median base salary is 3% above that national figure, about the 53rd 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 Utah range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 3 of 5 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 Department of Administrative Services is $77,001, 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 13 Utah departments. In Department of Administrative Services, the median of $26,929 ranks #6 of 13.
Median total compensation for the Administrative Assistant role in other Utahdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In Utah, the median of $50,113 ranks #19 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of Utah →
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/Department of Administrative Services
Source-specific fields
Jessika Huhnke works as a Administrative Assistant for Department of Administrative Services within Das General Services. Jessika earned $26,929 in 2019.