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Hiring difficulty · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Austin, TX

The public market difficulty score for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Austin, TX is 6.4 out of 10, in the elevated band. This occupation is a smaller share of jobs in Austin than it is nationwide. The location quotient is 0.75 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Texas, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 36.8 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $46,510 a year is within 3 percent of the U.S. median of $45,930 and above the Texas median of $42,910 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 6,000 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types): the extract holds 1,292 organization records with a practice ZIP in this metro (retrieved September 28, 2026). That count is the same for every role in Austin. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Austin sits at rank 36 in this set of 80 metros.

Public market difficulty score
6.4
Elevated

Average of three ranked components, shown to one decimal. How this score is built

Key numbers

Metro median pay
$46,510
Texas $42,910 · U.S. $45,930. BLS OEWS, May 2025, annual wage.
Local 75th percentile
$50,450
Texas $47,850 · U.S. $50,580. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Statewide hiring pace
36.8 days
All industries, Texas, December 2025. U.S. pace 37.8 days that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Levels: 608 thousand openings and 503 thousand hires.
Statewide openings rate
4.1%
All industries, Texas, December 2025. U.S. rate 4.0% that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Statewide figure, for every industry in the state.
Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types)
1,292
Same number for every role in this metro. CMS NPPES organization records with a practice ZIP here, retrieved September 28, 2026. Provider types on file: clinics, home health, hospitals, pharmacies, physical therapy, rehabilitation, skilled nursing. Oklahoma and Texas city snapshot, so this is records on file, not a count for this occupation.

JOLTS on this page is a statewide, all-industry figure. It is the same number for every role in Texas. It is a December 2025 print, matched to the U.S. total-nonfarm print for that month.

Annual pay

Metro employment 6,000 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 0.75. Metro area: Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX.

PercentileMetroTXU.S.
25th$39,560$37,170$38,570
Median$46,510$42,910$45,930
75th$50,450$47,850$50,580

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.

Score components

ComponentInputScoreReading
Local supply0.758.0Location quotient, BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component. Ranked among the 1,953 published pages.
Statewide openings rate4.1%6.3Total nonfarm, all industries, Texas, December 2025. Higher rate, higher component. Ranked among 51 states and DC.
Statewide hiring pace36.8 days5.0Openings ÷ hires × 365.25 ÷ 12, from 608 thousand openings and 503 thousand hires. Higher days, higher component.

Shown score 6.4 is the average, rounded half up to one decimal. Full method