Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Sherman-Denison, TX

Pay in Sherman-Denison against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Sherman-Denison earns $37,640–$45,950. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,130, only 1.4 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 only $8,310 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in Sherman-Denison 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 $5,790 over the median, the 25th only $2,520 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,471 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 Sherman-Denison, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Sherman-Denison

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 $11,659 to the $40,160 median and brings it to $51,819 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 Sherman-Denison

Of the 15 roles we track in Sherman-Denison, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($43,710) and customer support specialists ($37,090). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,260.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 15 roles we track in Sherman-Denison (-12.6%), between data entry specialists (-11.5%) and payroll specialists (-13.3%). The typical role here is at -14.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Sherman-Denison, 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 24 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Sherman-Denison, 15 pay less, the largest of them McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370), El Paso, TX ($36,790) and Lubbock, TX ($39,560).

Sherman-Denison against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Sherman-Denison is #360 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Columbia and Ames pay just above Sherman-Denison and Battle Creek and Spartanburg just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Sherman-Denison. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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