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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Dallas, TX
The public market difficulty score for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Dallas, TX is 4.7 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 0.87 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 5.358 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. 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 $45,630 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 21,700 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types): the extract holds 3,753 organization records with a practice ZIP in this metro (retrieved September 28, 2026). That count is the same for every role in Dallas. Dallas is number 5 of 80 metros on this site by healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.
Demand from national projections, the local pay premium, and a supply modifier. How this score is built
Key numbers
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 21,700 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 0.87. Jobs per 1,000 in the metro: 5.358. Metro area: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX.
| Percentile | Metro | TX | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | $38,110 | $37,170 | $38,570 |
| Median | $45,630 | $42,910 | $45,930 |
| 75th | $49,650 | $47,850 | $50,580 |
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.
Score components
| Component | Weight | Input | Score | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projected openings | 19.6% | Not in extract | 4.0 | This occupation has no row in the projections extract. The component is the bottom of the scale, the same value the lowest projected occupation on the grid receives. It is not an estimated openings rate. |
| Projected growth | 23.9% | Not in extract | 4.0 | This occupation has no row in the projections extract. The component is the bottom of the scale, the same value the lowest projected occupation on the grid receives. It is not an estimated openings rate. |
| Pay versus U.S. median | 43.5% | 0.99× | 4.8 | Metro median $45,630 divided by the U.S. median $45,930 for this occupation. Higher ratio, higher component. Ranked among the 1,733 scored pages. |
| Location quotient | 8.7% | 0.87 | 7.1 | Fewer of these workers than the national mix. BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component, and only as a modifier. Ranked among the 1,733 scored pages. |
| Statewide labor market | 4.3% | 4.1% · 36.8 days | 5.7 | Mean of two ranks among 51 states and DC: the December 2025 total-nonfarm openings rate (component 6.3) and the hiring pace (component 5.0). Same number for every role in Texas. |
Shown score 4.7 is the weighted average, rounded half up to one decimal. When this occupation is not a primary-care, dental, or mental-health match, the shortage weight is left out and the other weights are scaled to 100 percent. Full method
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