Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area earns $36,560–$49,420. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,010, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,860 wide, wider than in Texas as a whole ($10,680) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,000 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $6,860, or about $8,852 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 the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

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

At the $42,560 median, a local hire costs about $54,916 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,356 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 Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($43,960) and HR assistants ($42,070). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,270.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area (-7.3%), between paralegals (-5.9%) and e-commerce order specialists (-9.9%). The typical role here is at -16.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, 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 11 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, 6 pay less, the largest of them McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370), El Paso, TX ($36,790) and Lubbock, TX ($39,560).

the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area is #172 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, South Bend-Mishawaka and Winchester pay just above the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area and Canton-Massillon and Detroit-Warren just below. All four are within $240 a year of the median in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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