Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,658
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,252
14.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,724
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
$42,910
Kept after tax
$36,658
Worth in national money
$37,724
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $42,910. That is 39 of 51 states, and about 6.58% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 367.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $42,910, tax leaves $36,658, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $37,724 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $43,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For medical secretaries and administrative assistants, Texas sits in the lower band at $42,910, ranking 39 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 6.58%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, medical secretaries and administrative assistants sits at 367 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for medical secretaries and administrative assistants — median $42,910 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $36,658 retained, $37,724 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $43,270 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,570 |
| This salary | $42,910 |
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 | $36,658 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $36,658 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,289 |
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 | $42,910 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,947 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of medical secretaries and administrative assistants in Texas earn under $42,910 and half over. The published range runs $33,090 at the tenth percentile to $56,570 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $36,658, worked from $42,910. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 367 of 493.
- Two cautions on $37,724, the adjusted value of that $42,910 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 367 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for medical secretaries and administrative assistants in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,090 to $56,570; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Texas take-home of $36,658, on $42,910 for work ranking 367 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 367 of 493 in the state.
- This $37,724 adjusted figure, worked from $42,910, 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 367 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 367 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,090 at the tenth percentile, $56,570 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $37,724 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $36,658 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,090 to $56,570) 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 $37,724 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 $36,658 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.