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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistantss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 383 metro areas

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$106,220	5,300	4.7
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$105,190	11,250	4.7
3	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$100,930	1,710	4.2
4	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$92,240	490	2.4
5	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$90,320	12,960	4.1
6	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$87,910	3,530	3.3
7	Vallejo, CA	$86,190	230	1.6
8	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$85,260	11,290	4.2
9	Napa, CA	$84,640	180	2.3
10	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$84,540	4,510	2.9
11	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$84,330	160	2.2
12	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$84,090	260	2.7
13	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$83,840	76,950	8.1
14	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$82,850	20,850	3.3
15	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$82,740	460	2.3
16	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$82,250	740	2.3
17	Rochester, MN	$82,230	150	1.2
18	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$81,640	430	2.7
19	Santa Fe, NM	$81,410	600	9.8
20	Corvallis, OR	$80,960	140	3.6
21	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$80,860	7,370	3.5
22	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$80,700	1,250	5.2
23	Merced, CA	$80,650	150	1.9
24	Lexington Park, MD	$80,630	230	3.2
25	New Haven, CT	$80,620	800	2.8

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.