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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Baltimore, MD

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Baltimore, MD lands at 7.0 out of 10, in the hard band of the public market difficulty score. In Maryland, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.4%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 43.4 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median is $47,680 a year, above the U.S. median of $45,930 and within 3 percent of the Maryland median of $47,850 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). This occupation's share of jobs in Baltimore is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 1.03 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 8,640 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Baltimore. 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, Baltimore sits at rank 21 in this set of 80 metros.