Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping salary

SOC 43-4161 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$50,610

per year, nationally

Middle half

$44,030–$59,800

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

90,220

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-7.1%

9,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$37,340$68,280

10th: $37,340
25th: $44,030
Median: $50,610
75th: $59,800
90th: $68,280

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Associate's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$59,050	109.9	610	1.49×
2	California	$57,590	110.7	11,490	1.09×
3	Washington	$57,390	107.0	2,350	1.14×
4	Maryland	$56,880	105.0	1,480	0.93×
5	Alaska	$56,510	102.4	260	1.37×
6	Rhode Island	$56,370	102.3	150	0.51×
7	Massachusetts	$55,840	105.8	1,400	0.66×
8	Colorado	$54,880	103.1	1,660	1.00×
9	Minnesota	$54,520	98.6	3,380	1.98×
10	New Jersey	$54,410	108.8	4,000	1.61×
11	Connecticut	$54,130	103.6	910	0.93×
12	Oregon	$53,550	103.4	1,050	0.92×
13	North Dakota	$53,000	89.0	110	0.45×
14	New York	$52,920	107.9	8,800	1.57×
15	Virginia	$51,950	101.1	2,160	0.91×
16	Vermont	$51,810	98.0	140	0.80×
17	Idaho	$51,770	95.5	280	0.56×
18	New Hampshire	$51,400	104.2	470	1.18×
19	Delaware	$50,850	99.8	290	1.02×
20	Kentucky	$50,400	90.2	1,240	1.07×
21	Montana	$50,070	94.6	140	0.46×
22	Maine	$49,710	97.0	490	1.31×
23	Wyoming	$49,660	92.7	90	0.52×
24	New Mexico	$49,650	92.2	620	1.22×
25	Kansas	$49,630	90.1	660	0.79×
26	Hawaii	$49,260	110.0	450	1.23×
27	Pennsylvania	$48,800	97.6	2,700	0.77×
28	Wisconsin	$48,690	94.1	1,890	1.11×
29	Iowa	$48,490	87.8	920	1.02×
30	Florida	$48,330	103.4	3,210	0.56×
31	Ohio	$48,310	92.8	2,770	0.86×
32	Illinois	$48,310	100.0	4,140	1.17×
33	Michigan	$48,250	96.2	1,890	0.74×
34	North Carolina	$48,190	94.3	2,790	0.97×
35	Missouri	$47,960	90.8	1,090	0.64×
36	Nevada	$47,900	100.0	1,390	1.55×
37	Arizona	$47,890	100.7	1,490	0.79×
38	Indiana	$47,850	93.3	1,870	1.00×
39	Texas	$47,540	97.1	5,890	0.72×
40	Louisiana	$47,490	88.2	750	0.67×
41	Nebraska	$47,130	90.1	440	0.75×
42	Georgia	$46,830	96.3	2,510	0.89×
43	Arkansas	$46,190	86.9	720	0.96×
44	Utah	$45,790	98.9	700	0.70×
45	Tennessee	$45,760	91.9	3,930	2.07×
46	South Carolina	$45,300	93.7	1,190	0.89×
47	South Dakota	$45,150	88.6	190	0.71×
48	Oklahoma	$44,950	87.8	600	0.60×
49	Mississippi	$44,780	87.0	1,010	1.50×
50	West Virginia	$42,990	89.5	480	1.18×
51	Alabama	$42,140	88.8	960	0.78×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$67,590	110.4	560	0.85×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$66,550	115.6	1,300	0.94×
3	Vallejo, CA	$61,870	108.5	90	1.03×
4	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$61,600	109.9	60	1.05×
5	Napa, CA	$61,390	112.6	40	0.93×
6	Rochester, MN	$60,540	90.8	200	2.79×
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$60,420	111.1	1,480	1.22×
8	Lexington Park, MD	$59,970	100.8	40	0.95×
9	Corvallis, OR	$59,880	104.0	40	1.68×
10	Boulder, CO	$59,690	105.2	80	0.69×
11	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$59,120	108.9	1,610	0.89×
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$58,610	106.7	640	1.03×
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$58,140	110.5	190	0.99×
14	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$57,820	107.8	90	0.78×
15	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$57,600	113.6	3,890	1.07×
16	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$57,530	104.5	660	0.84×
17	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$57,440	108.3	1,150	0.73×
18	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$57,220	102.4	30	1.01×
19	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$57,200	106.9	240	1.02×
20	Grand Junction, CO	$57,160	95.5	40	0.91×
21	Winchester, VA-WV	$57,160	96.5	50	1.30×
22	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$57,130	108.6	60	0.88×
23	New Haven, CT	$57,020	104.6	140	0.88×
24	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$56,850	112.6	7,640	1.39×
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$56,670	104.8	2,350	2.08×
26	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$56,140	105.6	100	1.77×
27	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$56,100	105.8	950	1.02×
28	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$55,830	111.9	1,240	1.39×
29	Modesto, CA	$55,780	104.1	190	1.72×
30	Iowa City, IA	$55,650	91.5	40	0.69×
31	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$55,190	105.4	640	0.91×
32	Elizabethtown, KY	$54,950	90.6	240	7.99×
33	Anchorage, AK	$54,900	105.4	130	1.23×
34	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$54,220	100.9	50	0.76×
35	Greeley, CO	$54,170	100.2	80	1.10×
36	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$54,160	103.9	40	1.20×
37	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$54,060	105.1	210	1.28×
38	Salem, OR	$54,040	103.6	150	1.39×
39	Yuba City, CA	$54,040	104.2	40	1.25×
40	Topeka, KS	$53,930	88.8	90	1.38×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan$45,920
Information and Record Clerks, All Other$49,500

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping earn the most

Best paying metro areas for human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping

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