Medical Administrative Assistant salary in El Paso, TX

Pay in El Paso against Texas and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $51,310, 1.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in El Paso earns $31,600–$44,160. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,560 wide, wider than in Texas as a whole ($10,680) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in El Paso depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $7,370 a year in pay and about $9,510 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $5,190 in pay. 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 El Paso, 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 El Paso

At the $36,790 median, a local hire costs about $47,471 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,681 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 El Paso

Of the 17 roles we track in El Paso, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($37,280) and data entry specialists ($31,200). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,920.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in El Paso (-19.9%), between e-commerce order specialists (-19.3%) and accountants (-21.1%). The typical role here is at -19.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in El Paso, 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 5 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than El Paso, 1 pays less: McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370).

El Paso against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, El Paso is #92 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Kingsport-Bristol and Morristown pay just above El Paso and Homosassa Springs and Jonesboro just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in El Paso. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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