Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,776
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$10,894
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,295
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$55,670
Kept after tax
$44,776
Worth in national money
$51,295
State rank
47
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $55,670. That is 47 of 51 states, and about 27.31% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 186 among 486 occupations Mississippi publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $55,670 you keep $44,776 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,295 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $59,260, since top earners drag the number up.
- For executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $55,670, ranking 47 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 27.31%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 186 of 486 in Mississippi places executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $44,776 after the full tax stack, from $55,670. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,295 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $59,260 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,380 |
| This salary | $55,670 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Mississippi | $44,776 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,911 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,020 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $53,013 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,652 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Mississippi earn less than $55,670. The published range is $37,810 up to $82,380, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Mississippi's $44,776, worked from $55,670. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 186 of 486.
- Two cautions on $51,295, the adjusted value of that $55,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 186 of 486 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in Mississippi the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,810 to $82,380. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Mississippi take-home of $44,776, on $55,670 for work ranking 186 of 486 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 186 of 486 in the state.
- This $51,295 adjusted figure, worked from $55,670, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 186 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 186 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $59,260 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $37,810 and the top tenth $82,380 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $51,295.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Mississippi's own levy, $44,776 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Mississippi is $59,260. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,810) and the ninetieth ($82,380) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Mississippi's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $51,295 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $44,776 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.