Medical Administrative Assistant salary in San Angelo, TX

Pay in San Angelo against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in San Angelo earns $36,990–$46,790. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,790, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($42,160) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,800 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in San Angelo pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $4,230 a year in pay and about $5,458 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $5,570 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 median and the 75th percentile in San Angelo, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in San Angelo

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $12,356 to the $42,560 median and brings it to $54,916 a year. 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 San Angelo

Of the 14 roles we track in San Angelo, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($44,280) and administrative assistants ($40,360). Project Coordinator is the highest at $73,290.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 14 roles we track in San Angelo (-7.3%); marketing specialists come last (-38.4%). The typical role here is at -16.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in San Angelo than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.1% of the jobs in these 14 roles in San Angelo, 5.1% across Texas and 6.3% 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 23 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than San Angelo, 16 pay less, the largest of them McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370), El Paso, TX ($36,790) and Lubbock, TX ($39,560).

San Angelo against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, San Angelo is #322 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 San Angelo and Canton-Massillon and Detroit-Warren just below. All four are within $240 a year of the median in San Angelo. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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