Roles Office & Administrative Support

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

Occupation · SOC 43-6014 · Office & Administrative Support · BLS OEWS · Annual · National

Employment · U.S. May 2025

1.71M −1.79%down YoY
Employment · ATL / U.S.
25,280 / 1,706,790
Median Annual Pay · ATL / U.S.
$45,270 / $47,540
  • Atlanta left axis
  • U.S. right axis

Employment · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · Atlanta May 2021 – May 2025 · U.S. May 2021 – May 2025

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — Employment. Atlanta: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025. U.S.: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025.
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Employment for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive in the U.S. is 1,706,790 (May 2025), down 1.79% from a year earlier. Median annual pay is $47,540.

Source: BLS OEWS · May 2025

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Key Stats

Employment1,706,790May 2025
Employment Change−1.79%downYoY
Median Annual Pay$47,540May 2025
Median Annual Pay Change+2.70%upYoY
Mean Annual Pay$49,350May 2025
P10 Pay$33,280May 2025
P25 Pay$38,830May 2025
P75 Pay$58,000May 2025
P90 Pay$66,350May 2025
SOC Code43-6014
Occupation FamilyOffice & Administrative Support43-0000

Pay Distribution National · May 2025

  1. P10 $33,280
  2. P25 $38,830
  3. Median $47,540
  4. P75 $58,000
  5. P90 $66,350

Annual wage percentiles as published (BLS OEWS). Only the five published points are drawn; nothing between them is estimated.

Job Economy Report the market for this role · National

Employment

1.71M
−1.79%down YoY

5 annual observations

Atlanta vs. U.S. matching OEWS measures

MeasureAtlantaU.S.Atlanta vs U.S.
Employment May 2025 25,280 −8.97%down 1,706,790 −1.79%down
Median Annual Pay May 2025 $45,270 +8.72%up $47,540 +2.70%up −4.8% vs U.S.
Mean Annual Pay May 2025 $45,960 +5.70%up $49,350 +3.59%up −6.9% vs U.S.
P25 Pay May 2025 $35,660 +6.07%up $38,830 +2.81%up −8.2% vs U.S.
P75 Pay May 2025 $57,320 +9.75%up $58,000 +4.22%up −1.2% vs U.S.

Atlanta is msa:12060; no other area's figure is substituted. Badges are each geography's own published year change.

Hiring Context market-wide · National · June 2026

BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, all nonfarm industries, seasonally adjusted. JOLTS is published nationally, not by occupation or metro; no hiring figure is attributed to this role.

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  • Demand employment and its change from a year earlier
  • Employment concentration jobs per 1,000 and the location quotient
  • Atlanta vs. national the same measures side by side where Atlanta publishes them
  • Hiring conditions market-wide openings, hires, quits and layoffs

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Performance Overview change over each horizon the series supports

Employment · 1 Year

−1.79%down

May 2025

  • Office & Administrative Support −2.55%down
  • All occupations +0.85%up

Employment · 3 Year

−6.56%down

since 2022

Median Pay · 1 Year

+2.70%up

May 2025

  • Office & Administrative Support +2.44%up
  • All occupations +2.99%up

Median Pay · 3 Year

+16.0%up

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Program Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (annual, May reference)
Reference Period May 2025
Geography National
SOC Code 43-6014
Published Measures 7 of 9
Employment Metric ID bls.oews.employment.soc_43_6014
Employment Observations 5
Hiring Context Market-wide BLS JOLTS (national); no occupation-level hiring series is published
Description Source O*NET 30.1 Database (O*NET-SOC 43-6014.00)
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National is the default geography. Atlanta Beta covers msa:12060 only.

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