Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive job market in Missouri
Industry trends, wages and hiring signals.
The headline
Missouri industry employment tracked close to the U.S. benchmark
A data-driven view of the industries that employ Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Missouri.
Occupation pay
What Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive earn in Missouri
BLS OEWS occupation-level pay estimates for this role — separate from the industry wage trends used elsewhere in this report.
Median annual wage
$43,540Missouri- Middle 50% of published wages
- $36,750 – $49,930
- U.S. median annual wage
- $47,540
- Reference period
- May 2025
The middle 50% is the 25th-to-75th percentile wage range, not an experience-level band. Suppressed or unavailable BLS values remain unpublished rather than being estimated.
Pay around Missouri
How median pay varies by metro area
Published BLS OEWS metro estimates for Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive, compared with the Missouri median of $43,540.
Kansas City, MO-KS$46,810+7.5% vs. state
St. Louis, MO-IL$46,200+6.1% vs. state
St. Joseph, MO-KS$42,210−3.1% vs. state
Jefferson City, MO$40,980−5.9% vs. state
Springfield, MO$40,690−6.5% vs. state
Columbia, MO$39,680−8.9% vs. state
View 2 more published metro areas
Joplin, MO-KS$38,540−11.5% vs. state
Cape Girardeau, MO-IL$37,480−13.9% vs. state
Areas are ordered by published median wage for readability, not as an overall job-market ranking. The vertical marker is the Missouri median. Some BLS metropolitan areas cross state lines, so a metro estimate can cover workers in more than one state.
Verified snapshot
Market at a Glance
Key changes in Missouri’s weighted industry mix.
Percentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
Published coverage: 207,770 represented establishments, 84.82% of the published industry mix.
Local research
What the data shows for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Missouri
Findings describe the published observation periods shown below. Research published Oct 11, 2026.
Private education and health services has the largest positive weighted contribution
Private education and health services supplies 89.4% of the positive weighted contributions to this occupation's industry employment-growth proxy in Missouri in January to March 2026. Its own year-over-year employment change was +2.0%. Each leading industry group is weighted by its share of the occupation's national industry mix, and the groups examined cover 84.1% of that mix. These contributions do not count occupation jobs created.
January to March 2026 · BLS QCEWPublished median pay is below the U.S. median
A 8.4% difference separates Missouri's median annual wage for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive from the U.S. median in OEWS May 2025. At $43,540, the state median is below the national figure of $47,540. The estimates describe the middle of each wage distribution, without a living-cost adjustment.
OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWSPay differs widely between metro areas
Cape Girardeau, MO-IL and Kansas City, MO-KS define the low and high ends of this published median-pay comparison for Missouri. Their estimates are $37,480 and $46,810, respectively, in OEWS May 2025; the high end is 24.9% higher. The comparison includes 8 metro areas on the same wage basis and does not measure living costs or job availability.
OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWSMetro estimates may include areas in neighboring states. The comparison covers published metro estimates, not every part of the state.
Industry measures describe the industries associated with this occupation. They are not direct occupation employment, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. Findings describe published data and do not establish causes. Methodology
Employment trends
Missouri industry employment over time
Year-over-year change in the weighted industries. The U.S. line is the latest-quarter benchmark because a comparable national quarterly history is not published here.
- Missouri · 2026 Q1+0.6%
- U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark+0.6%
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View every published value
| Quarter | Missouri | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | +1.4% | 100% |
| 2024 Q3 | +1.2% | 100% |
| 2024 Q4 | +1.1% | 100% |
| 2025 Q1 | +0.8% | 91.48% |
| 2025 Q2 | +0.6% | 91.48% |
| 2025 Q3 | +0.5% | 91.48% |
| 2025 Q4 | +0.4% | 91.48% |
| 2026 Q1 | +0.6% | 91.15% |
How to read this chart
State trend and national reference
The solid line follows Missouri’s published year-over-year industry employment changes by quarter. The dashed U.S. line is a latest-quarter reference, not a second time series.
- Published quarters
- 8
- Earliest quarter
- 2024 Q2
- Latest quarter
- 2026 Q1
- U.S. benchmark
- +0.6%
Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.
Industry context
Where Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive Work
The occupation mix determines which Missouri industries are weighted into this view.
| Industry group | Occupation mix | Employment change | Establishments | Avg. weekly industry wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private education and health services | 29.7% | +2.0% | 77,340 | $1,199 |
| Professional and business services | 17.6% | -0.3% | 45,495 | $1,851 |
| Other services | 10.7% | +0.4% | 14,001 | $951 |
| State and local | 9.8% | +0.3% | 8,659 | $1,075 |
| Trade, transportation, and utilities | 8.3% | -0.9% | 40,288 | $1,141 |
| Financial activities | 7.9% | -0.3% | 21,987 | $2,368 |
Which industries are growing?
3 weighted industries are growing
Only weighted industries with a published positive Missouri employment change are listed.
- Private education and health services+2.0%
- Other services+0.4%
- State and local+0.3%
The remaining weighted industries published a flat or negative change in January to March 2026.
Current Missouri context
Current Missouri Market Signals
Statewide indicators for all occupations in Missouri. They are not Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.
Statewide job postings
Indeed job postings · Missouri
Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score
Total postings index (seasonally adjusted) by observation date · baseline 100
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View values: Indeed postings index
| Observation date | Index (Feb 2020 = 100) |
|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2026 | 104.25 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 104.62 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 104.93 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 105.16 |
| Aug 21, 2026 | 105.34 |
| Aug 28, 2026 | 105.41 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 106.43 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 107.57 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 108.70 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 109.53 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 109.90 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 110.48 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 109.79 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 107.92 |
This is statewide demand across all occupations, not demand for this specific job. Postings are not a count of vacancies or hires, and Indeed does not cover the entire labor market.
Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0. Seven-day average, seasonally adjusted; publisher refreshes weekly and may revise history. Retrieved Nov 1, 2026 · saved source copy. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and samples weekly observations for the chart.
Statewide layoff notices
Statewide layoff-notice filings
Missouri statewide8 notices in this source
Notice dates from Aug 5, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026 (UTC), a rolling 90-calendar-day period.
What this means: These are statewide totals from notices dated in this period in Missouri’s official tracking system. Reported positions are the counts published in those notices, not a count of people confirmed to have lost their jobs. No employer is identified.
Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses. Notices may be amended or withdrawn. This statewide context is not occupation-specific and does not affect the Job Market Health score. Missouri’s state tracking system also records smaller Rapid Response events that fall below federal WARN thresholds, so it is not a list of federal WARN filings only.
Missouri Office of Workforce Development About WARN data
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Career context
Related occupations
Related roles from the occupation’s published O*NET profile.
Questions answered by this release
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Missouri FAQs
Each answer is limited to what QCEW 2026 Q1 actually publishes for this state.
Is employment growing for Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Missouri?
The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Missouri industries weighted to Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive changed +0.6% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with +0.6% nationwide.
Are wages for Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive rising in Missouri?
QCEW does not publish pay for Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +3.2% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.
How complete is this Missouri industry view?
The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 91.15% of the occupation’s industry mix.
Does this page show current Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive openings?
No. QCEW measures industry employment, establishments and wages. Any postings, news or WARN figures shown here are statewide context and are not occupation-specific openings.
Methodology & sourcesQCEW 2026 Q1 · coverage 91.15% · full evidence record
Methodology & Sources
Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix. This is occupation-weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment and not a count of current job openings.
- Occupation
- Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
- SOC code
- 43-6014
- State
- Missouri
- QCEW release label
- QCEW 2026 Q1
- Data period
- 2026 Q1
- State industry employment, year over year
- +0.6%State data coverage 91.15%
- U.S. benchmark, year over year
- +0.6%
- Difference from U.S. benchmark
- 0.0 percentage pointsPercentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
- Establishments, year over year
- +5.5%State data coverage 91.15%
- Average weekly industry wage, year over year
- +3.2%State data coverage 91.48%
- Industry mix vintage
- EP-2025-2035
- BLS publication date
- Aug 28, 2026
- Source verification
- Verified against the committed source snapshotVerified Sep 17, 2026
- Canonical record URL
- https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/secretaries-and-administrative-assistants-except-legal-medical-and-executive/missouri#evidence-record
- Derived by
- JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix
MethodologyBLS QCEWHow to citeQCEW state context release, 2026 Q1
Weighted industry conditions are not direct occupation employment, occupation wages, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. No causal explanation is inferred.