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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive pay in Alabama and District of Columbia
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive is $41,630 per year in Alabama. It is $59,910 per year in District of Columbia. Alabama is 30.5% below District of Columbia on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-6014 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 45,050 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and 11,800 in District of Columbia. 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.