Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area

Pay in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area earns $35,760–$46,460. The top tenth earns $54,160 or more, 1.8 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $10,700 wide, between the figure for Texas ($10,680) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,910 over the median, the 25th only $2,790 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $10,206 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area

At the $38,550 median, a local hire costs about $49,742 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,192 here. 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 the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($40,220) and customer support specialists ($38,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,470.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 16 roles we track in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area (-16.1%), between office managers (-15.7%) and executive assistants (-17.1%). The typical role here is at -15.2%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area, 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 18 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area, 7 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).

the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area is #271 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Macon-Bibb County and Jacksonville pay just above the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area and Charleston and Youngstown-Warren just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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