Medical Assistants in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,934
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,586
14.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,921
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$39,520
Kept after tax
$33,934
Worth in national money
$34,921
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for medical assistants is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $39,520. That is 42 of 51 states, and about 13.5% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, medical assistants lands at 389. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $39,520, tax leaves $33,934, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $34,921 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $41,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- For medical assistants, Texas sits in the lower band at $39,520, ranking 42 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 13.5%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 389 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for medical assistants — median $39,520 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $33,934 retained, $34,921 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $41,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,260 |
| This salary | $39,520 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Texas | $33,934 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $33,934 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,119 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $39,520 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,728 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $39,520. The published range is $31,200 up to $49,260, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $33,934, from $39,520, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 389 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $34,921, the adjusted value of that $39,520 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 389 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for medical assistants in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,200 to $49,260. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,934 from $39,520. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 389 of 493 locally.
- This $34,921 adjusted figure, worked from $39,520, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 389 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 389 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $41,240, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,200 at the tenth percentile, $49,260 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $34,921.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $33,934 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Texas is $41,240. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,200 to $49,260) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $34,921 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $33,934 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.