Medical Administrative Assistant salary in McAllen-Edinburg, TX

Pay in McAllen-Edinburg against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in McAllen-Edinburg earns $31,210–$38,560. The top tenth earns $45,520 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 $7,350 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in McAllen-Edinburg pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,190 over it, while the 25th sits $5,160 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,826 more a year with benefits. 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 above the 90th percentile in McAllen-Edinburg, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles. An offer at the national rate would beat what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in McAllen-Edinburg

At the $36,370 median, a local hire costs about $46,929 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,559 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 McAllen-Edinburg

Of the 17 roles we track in McAllen-Edinburg, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($36,950) and customer support specialists ($35,830). Project Coordinator is the highest at $69,910.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 17 roles we track in McAllen-Edinburg (-20.8%), between office managers (-20.0%) and executive assistants (-21.1%). The typical role here is at -21.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in McAllen-Edinburg, 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. All 4 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than McAllen-Edinburg also pay more, among them Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ($45,630) and Houston-Pasadena, TX ($44,210).

McAllen-Edinburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, McAllen-Edinburg is #77 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, Lake Charles and Daphne-Fairhope pay just above McAllen-Edinburg and Auburn-Opelika and Mobile just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in McAllen-Edinburg. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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