Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Wichita Falls, TX

Pay in Wichita Falls against Texas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Wichita Falls earns $35,450–$46,210. The top tenth earns $50,250 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($41,980) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $10,760 wide, between the figure for Texas ($10,680) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,550 over the median, the 25th only $3,210 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,742 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 Wichita Falls, and the Texas statewide median of $42,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Wichita Falls

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 $11,224 to the $38,660 median and brings it to $49,884 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 Wichita Falls

Of the 16 roles we track in Wichita Falls, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($39,140) and customer support specialists ($36,370). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,070.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in Wichita Falls (-15.8%), between bookkeepers (-13.3%) and payroll specialists (-17.1%). The typical role here is at -17.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.3% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Wichita Falls, 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 25 areas in Texas with more medical administrative assistants than Wichita Falls, 12 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).

Wichita Falls against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Wichita Falls is #367 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Las Cruces and Goldsboro pay just above Wichita Falls and Chattanooga and Columbus just below. All four are within $30 a year of the median in Wichita Falls. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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