Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Tyler, TX

Pay in Tyler against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Tyler earns $35,120–$44,740. The top tenth earns $48,530 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 $9,620 wide, against $10,680 across Texas and $12,010 nationally: employers in Tyler 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 $6,860 over the median, the 25th only $2,760 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,852 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Tyler, 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 Tyler

At the $37,880 median, a local hire costs about $48,877 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,997 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 Tyler

Of the 16 roles we track in Tyler, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($38,020) and customer support specialists ($37,720). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,110.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 16 roles we track in Tyler (-17.5%), between customer support specialists (-15.7%) and sales development representatives (-19.3%). The typical role here is at -15.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Tyler, 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 14 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Tyler, 4 pay less, the largest of them McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($36,370), El Paso, TX ($36,790) and the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($37,600).

Tyler against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Tyler is #211 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Wildwood-The Villages and Manhattan pay just above Tyler and Warner Robins and Athens-Clarke County just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Tyler. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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