How much do Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive make in Guayama, PR?

Percentile spread

For Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive, the published 10th percentile is $21,840 and the 90th percentile is $30,850. The difference is $9,010, which is 37.2% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $22,920 to the 75th at $27,520, covers $4,600.

The mean annual wage is $25,540, which sits above the median of $24,220. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Guayama, PR median is 49.1% lower than the national median of $47,540 for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive.

It is 5.9% lower than the Puerto Rico median of $25,730.

Price-adjusted pay

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for Guayama, PR, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.

Nearby metros

5 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive. Guayama, PR ranks 2nd of 6 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is 22 miles away, with a median of $26,780 and employment of 12,690. That median is 10.6% higher than the median here.
• Ponce, PR is 38 miles away, with a median of $24,130 and employment of 1,480. That median is 0.4% lower than the median here.
• Arecibo, PR is 55 miles away, with a median of $23,580 and employment of 630. That median is 2.6% lower than the median here.

Employment share

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive accounts for 1.7% of wage-and-salary employment in Guayama, PR (210 of 12,450). Nationally the occupation is 1.1% of employment (1,706,790 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.54 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.