Executive Secretary

Across all employers in Utah, the median wage for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants — about 5,440 people — is $61,130. Department of Agriculture & Food pays a median base salary of $35,228 for this role, 42% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 4 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Agriculture & Food is $58,853, 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.

Executive Secretary is held in 10 Utah departments. In Department of Agriculture & Food, the median of $58,853 ranks #5 of 10.

This role is reported in 13 jurisdictions. In Utah, the median of $49,345 ranks #8 of 13. See Executive Secretary across all of Utah →

• Agriculture Supervisor 6
• Agriculture Technician I 26
• Agriculture Technician II 5
• Board/Commission Member 247
• Chemist/Microbiologist II 5
• Compliance Specialist I, Agriculture 14
• Compliance Specialist II, Agriculture 10
• Compliance Specialist III, Agriculture 6
• Compliance Specialist IV, Agriculture 5
• Conservation Planner I 7
• Conservation Planner III 5
• Conservation Planner, Supervisor 6
• Environmental Health Scientist I 10
• Environmental Health Scientist II 11
• Grazing/Rangeland Coordinator 7
• Inspector I, Agriculture 43
• Inspector II, Agriculture 8
• Inspector III, Agriculture 22
• Inspector IV, Agriculture 17
• Intern 6
• Office Specialist I 7
• Office Specialist II 6
• Predatory Animal Control Specialist 15
• Program Manager 11
• Temporary/Seasonal Fair Labor Standards Act Exempt Job 11
• Temporary/Seasonal Fair Labor Standards Act Non-Exempt Job 28
• Weights and Measures Inspector I 6
• Weights and Measures Inspector II 7