Administrative Assistant I

Across all employers in Texas, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 149,650 people — is $45,140. Department of Family and Protective Services pays a median base salary of $32,865 for this role, 27% below that figure — about the 17th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 799 of 800 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Department of Family and Protective Services is $32,865, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Administrative Assistant I is held in 10 Texas departments. In Department of Family and Protective Services, the median of $32,510 ranks #7 of 10.

This role is reported in 31 jurisdictions. In Texas, the median of $42,147 ranks #23 of 31. See Administrative Assistant across all of Texas →