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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants hiring difficulty in Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma City, OK scores 3.2 out of 10 for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, in the standard band. That is a quieter market on this measure than the hard band, which starts at 7.0. 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 Oklahoma, 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 44.6 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.79 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 4.863 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. The metro median is $38,870 a year, under the U.S. median of $45,930 and within 3 percent of the Oklahoma median of $38,330 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 3,300 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types): the extract holds 1,234 organization records with a practice ZIP in this metro (retrieved September 28, 2026). That count is the same for every role in Oklahoma City. This set of 80 metros places Oklahoma City at rank 45 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.