Texas / Health and Human Services Commission / Administrative Assistant I
Job-title file
Administrative Assistant I
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
84 employees hold this title in Health and Human Services Commission. Median total compensation for the role is $38,674, below the department median of $50,368.
- Employees
- 84
- Total payroll
- $3.1M
- Role median
- $38,674
- Agency median
- $50,368
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 84 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Administrative Assistant I pay vs. Texas
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. Health and Human Services Commission pays a median base salary of $43,676 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 46th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Health and Human Services Commission sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive across every employer in Texas, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Health and Human Services Commission’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 1,706,790 people — is $47,540. Health and Human Services Commission’s median base salary is 8% below that national figure, about the 39th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Texas range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,207 of 1,209 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 Health and Human Services Commission is $43,653, 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.
Compare departments
This role across Texas
Administrative Assistant I is held in 10 Texas departments. In Health and Human Services Commission, the median of $38,674 ranks #2 of 10.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Administrative Assistant I role in other Texasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Administrative Assistant beyond Texas
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 →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Administrative Assistantroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
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