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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive pay in District of Columbia and Rhode Island
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive is $59,910 per year in District of Columbia. It is $52,140 per year in Rhode Island. District of Columbia is 14.9% above Rhode Island 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 11,800 wage and salary jobs in District of Columbia and 5,200 in Rhode Island. 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