SALARY · SECRETARIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS, EXCEPT LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND EXECUTIVE · MISSISSIPPI

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive salary in Mississippi

If Mississippi is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive was $37,340. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$37,340

$18 per hour at the median · That is $10,200 (21.5 percent) below the national median of $47,540 for this occupation.

$39,590Mean annual salary
$19Mean hourly wage
$14,720People employed in this job in Mississippi

Salary range

25th: $30,430Median: $37,34075th: $46,490
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$30,430
Median (50th percentile)$37,340
75th percentile$46,490
Mean$39,590

The middle half of workers earned from $30,430 to $46,490 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

$31,421 a year
$2,618 a month
Federal tax $2,301 · FICA $2,857 · State tax $762

Caveat: the Mississippi DOR page also contains a stale 4.4 percent line beside the explicit 2026 row at 4 percent, so re-check against the final 2026 Form 80-105 instructions.

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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