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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive pay in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL and New Haven, CT
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive is $38,850 per year in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL. It is $63,800 per year in New Haven, CT. Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL is 39.1% below New Haven, CT 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 1,160 wage and salary jobs in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL and 4,780 in New Haven, CT. 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