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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Allentown, PA

The public market difficulty score for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Allentown, PA is 5.0 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. This occupation has no row in the 2025–2035 projections extract used here, so both demand components sit at the bottom of the scale used for occupations that do. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.84 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 5.207 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. In Pennsylvania, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.7%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 38.5 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $46,180 a year is within 3 percent of both the Pennsylvania median of $44,930 and the U.S. median of $45,930 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1,960 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Allentown. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Allentown at rank 55 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.