Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Corpus Christi, TX

Pay in Corpus Christi against Texas and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $49,790, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Corpus Christi earns $36,230–$46,260. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $10,030 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in Corpus Christi 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 $6,700 over the median, the 25th only $3,330 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,645 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 Corpus Christi, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Corpus Christi

At the $39,560 median, a local hire costs about $51,045 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,485 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 Corpus Christi

Of the 17 roles we track in Corpus Christi, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($42,340) and e-commerce order specialists ($39,080). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,320.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 17 roles we track in Corpus Christi (-13.9%), between executive assistants (-12.1%) and office managers (-14.0%). The typical role here is at -16.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Corpus Christi, 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 8 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Corpus Christi, 2 pay less: McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370) and El Paso, TX ($36,790).

Corpus Christi against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Corpus Christi is #130 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Little Rock-North Little Rock and Michigan City-La Porte pay just above Corpus Christi and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach and Wichita just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Corpus Christi. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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