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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants pay in Virginia and Washington
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants is $46,180 per year in Virginia. It is $58,100 per year in Washington. Virginia is 20.5% below Washington on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-6013 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 27,600 wage and salary jobs in Virginia and 10,960 in Washington. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings