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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Atlanta, GA

The public market difficulty score for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Atlanta, GA is 4.9 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. In Georgia, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 5.3%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 59.8 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). This metro has a thicker supply of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 1.26 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 7.817 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. The metro median of $46,370 a year is within 3 percent of the U.S. median of $45,930 and above the Georgia median of $43,160 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 22,590 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Atlanta. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Atlanta sits at rank 12 in this set of 80 metros.