Occupation / job
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
With a $50,610 median against a $50,020 national one, Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping is an average-paying occupation by construction — $49 a month either way. What separates it from the alternatives is not on this line.
90,220 people are employed as Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
Information and records work suits people who can be accurate and pleasant simultaneously, often while the person in front of them is neither.
We carry no verified training length for Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $44,030 to $59,800 — $1,314 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
The bottom quarter of Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping earns under $44,030, which is within $5,990 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if you need progression; these roles are frequently a level rather than a ladder.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 90,220 figure counts people already working as Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $50,610 is a genuinely representative number for Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping and the main variable left is where you live.
The middle half of this field earns between $44,030 and $59,800. That is $15,770 of range, with $50,610 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $59,800. Reaching it from the $50,610 midpoint is $9,190 a year; reaching it from the $44,030 that the bottom quarter of Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping earn is $15,770.
The climb from $50,610 to $59,800 is $9,190, against $6,580 down to $44,030. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping is larger than the realistic downside.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $24.33 at the midpoint for Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping, $21.16 at the 25th percentile and $28.75 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $50,610 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $50,610 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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