Administrative Assistant salary in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Pay in Beaumont-Port Arthur against Texas and the US

The middle half of administrative assistants in Beaumont-Port Arthur earns $34,740–$50,950. The top tenth earns $60,530 or more, 2.1 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.0 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $16,210 wide, against $17,510 across Texas and $19,170 nationally: employers in Beaumont-Port Arthur pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $8,570 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $7,640, or about $9,858 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $47,540 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Beaumont-Port Arthur, and the Texas statewide median of $45,140 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Beaumont-Port Arthur

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $12,574 to the $43,310 median and brings it to $55,884 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Beaumont-Port Arthur

Of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($45,790) and medical administrative assistants ($38,090). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,470.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur (-8.9%), between accountants (-8.4%) and HR assistants (-9.5%). The typical role here is at -13.4%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Beaumont-Port Arthur than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 13.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Beaumont-Port Arthur, 9.5% across Texas and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $36,310 in Eagle Pass to $48,470 in Austin-Round Rock, a gap of $12,160 a year. Of the 11 areas in Texas with more administrative assistants than Beaumont-Port Arthur, 6 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($39,280), the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($40,050) and McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($39,010).

Beaumont-Port Arthur against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Beaumont-Port Arthur is #157 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Great Falls and Gettysburg pay just above Beaumont-Port Arthur and Elkhart-Goshen and Savannah just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in Beaumont-Port Arthur. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, two pay more.

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