Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,450
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,690
14.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,568
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
$45,140
Kept after tax
$38,450
Worth in national money
$39,568
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $45,140, 36 of 51 states and about 5.05% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 350 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $45,140, take-home of $38,450 is worth roughly $39,568 in national money. The average comes to $45,850, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $45,140 median for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive places it 36 of 51 states, about 5.05% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 350 of 493 in Texas places secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive, whose median is $45,140, the adjusted figure of $39,568 differs little from $38,450 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $45,850 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,020 |
| This salary | $45,140 |
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 | $38,450 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $38,450 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,401 |
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 | $45,140 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,091 |
| 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 secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Texas earn under $45,140 and half over. The published range runs $29,810 at the tenth percentile to $63,020 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $38,450 take-home in Texas comes from $45,140. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 350 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $39,568 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 350.
- Figures are distribution medians for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $29,810 to $63,020; 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.
- Retained pay of $38,450, from $45,140, assumes a single Texas filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 350 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 36 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $39,568, worked from $45,140, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 350 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $29,810 and the top tenth $63,020 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $39,568 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $38,450 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($29,810) and the ninetieth ($63,020) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $39,568 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 $38,450 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.