SALARY · MEDICAL SECRETARIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS · WASHINGTON

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants salary in Washington

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For medical secretaries and administrative assistants in Washington, BLS put the median at $58,100 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$58,100

$28 per hour at the median · That is $12,170 (26.5 percent) above the national median of $45,930 for this occupation.

$57,300Mean annual salary
$28Mean hourly wage
$10,960People employed in this job in Washington

Salary range

25th: $48,510Median: $58,10075th: $62,840
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$48,510
Median (50th percentile)$58,100
75th percentile$62,840
Mean$57,300

The middle half of workers earned from $48,510 to $62,840 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$48,863 a year
$4,072 a month
Federal tax $4,792 · FICA $4,445 · State tax $0
Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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