Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Abilene, TX

Pay in Abilene against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Abilene earns $37,490–$49,790. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,790, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($42,950) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,300 wide, wider than in Texas as a whole ($10,680) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Abilene depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,300 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $6,000, or about $7,742 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 $45,930 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Abilene, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Abilene

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 $12,713 to the $43,790 median and brings it to $56,503 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 Abilene

Of the 16 roles we track in Abilene, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($45,620) and administrative assistants ($39,360). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,230.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 16 roles we track in Abilene (-4.7%), between HR assistants (-4.5%) and paralegals (-6.7%). The typical role here is at -15.5%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Abilene than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Abilene, 5.0% across Texas and 6.1% 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 $35,340 in Texarkana to $46,510 in Austin-Round Rock, a gap of $11,170 a year. Of the 12 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Abilene, 8 pay less, the largest of them San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX ($42,560), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370) and El Paso, TX ($36,790).

Abilene against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Abilene is #177 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Lafayette-West Lafayette and Jacksonville pay just above Abilene and Tampa-St. Petersburg and Billings just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in Abilene. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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