Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive · SOC 43-6014
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive Salary in the Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
Figures describe the Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town.
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive in the Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area earned a median of $41,840 per year ($20.11 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $29,300 at the 10th percentile to $59,110 at the 90th. BLS estimates 620 people work in this occupation in the area.
Pay distribution
Half of Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive in the Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area earn more than $41,840 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $35,290 and $49,010.
| Wage | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | $29,300 | $35,290 | $41,840 | $49,010 | $59,110 |
| Hourly | $14.09 | $16.97 | $20.11 | $23.56 | $28.42 |
A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.
How this area compares
- Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area$41,840 median for Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $35,290 to $49,010
- Texasstate$45,140 median for Texas; middle half earns $36,030 to $53,540
- United Statesnational$47,540 median for United States; middle half earns $38,830 to $58,000
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
The median here is −7% vs Texas overall and −12% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.
Other metro areas in Texas
Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.
- Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan areathis page$41,840 median for Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; middle half earns $35,290 to $49,010
- $48,470 median for Austin metro area; middle half earns $39,250 to $57,290
- $48,270 median for Midland metro area; middle half earns $39,880 to $57,700
- $47,450 median for Dallas metro area; middle half earns $38,100 to $57,250
- $46,750 median for Houston metro area; middle half earns $36,630 to $57,560
- $45,060 median for Odessa metro area; middle half earns $36,820 to $53,470
- $43,710 median for Sherman metro area; middle half earns $34,340 to $50,420
Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.
Keep exploring
Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:
Highest-paying metro areas for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executives · Highest-paying occupations in Border Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
About this estimate
These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.
Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.
About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.