Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping offer sit among all 92,580 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 92,580 Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping jobs in May 2024, which is 0.06% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Tennessee, where the location quotient is 2.17, meaning the occupation holds 2.17 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 11,790 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 27.6% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $31,050 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($67,140) is 1.9 times the 10th percentile ($36,090), a gap of $31,050 a year. The mean of $50,950 sitting above the median of $49,440 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 11,790 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, District of Columbia would lead at $60,960. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping stands number 287 by employment and number 530 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 3% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 19 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $49,440, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 7,410 jobs, 8.0% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $30,560 a year, against $68,070 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $49,440 works out to $4,120 a month before taxes, $1,902 per biweekly paycheck, and $951 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($42,360) to the 75th ($58,560) is worth $16,200 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $54,384 would sit between the median ($49,440) and the 75th percentile ($58,560), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $42,360, is $7,080 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

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