Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,876
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$19,604
26.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,357
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$75,480
Kept after tax
$55,876
Worth in national money
$53,357
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $75,480, putting the state 14 of 51 — about 1.45% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 190 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $75,480 the take-home is $55,876; in national-average money that behaves like $53,357. The average comes to $78,150, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $75,480, ranking 14 of 51 and running about 1.45% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ranks 190 of 489 occupations in Oregon by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in Oregon, on $75,480, is $55,876; deflated by the state's price level, $53,357. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $78,150 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,000 |
| This salary | $75,480 |
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 Oregon | $55,876 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,930 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,374 |
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 | $66,874 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,664 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,480 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,470 and the ninetieth is $102,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Oregon the take-home figure of $55,876, from $75,480, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 190 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,357, the adjusted value of that $75,480 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 190 of 489 locally.
- The Oregon median of $75,480 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,470 to $102,000. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Oregon is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $55,876 from $75,480. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 190 of 489 locally.
- This $53,357 adjusted figure, worked from $75,480, 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 190 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 190 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $78,150, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $56,470 at the tenth percentile, $102,000 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Oregon run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $53,357 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $55,876 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Oregon is $78,150. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($56,470 to $102,000) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $53,357 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $55,876 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.