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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Nashville, TN

The public market difficulty score for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Nashville, TN is 4.1 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. This metro has a thicker supply of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 1.91 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 11.803 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. 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 Tennessee, 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 35.7 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $45,570 a year is within 3 percent of the U.S. median of $45,930 and above the Tennessee median of $39,940 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 12,970 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Nashville. 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, Nashville sits at rank 35 in this set of 80 metros.