Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Pay in Beaumont-Port Arthur against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Beaumont-Port Arthur earns $35,980–$45,350. The top tenth earns $48,820 or more, 1.5 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,370 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in Beaumont-Port Arthur pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,260 over the median, the 25th only $2,110 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,368 a year in employer cost. 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Beaumont-Port Arthur, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

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 $11,058 to the $38,090 median and brings it to $49,148 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 #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($43,310) and customer support specialists ($37,980). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,470.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur (-17.1%), between virtual receptionists (-15.9%) and recruiters (-17.2%). The typical role here is at -13.4%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Beaumont-Port Arthur than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Beaumont-Port Arthur, 5.0% across Texas and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller 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 15 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Beaumont-Port Arthur, 5 pay less, the largest of them McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370), El Paso, TX ($36,790) and the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($37,600).

Beaumont-Port Arthur against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Beaumont-Port Arthur is #242 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Morgantown and Jackson pay just above Beaumont-Port Arthur and Parkersburg-Vienna and Augusta-Richmond County just below. All four are within $20 a year of the median in Beaumont-Port Arthur. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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