Medical assistant salary in Texas

Texas expects about 10,970 medical assistant openings every year, and most programs take under a year. Pick an accredited program on our Texas programs page, then send the short "Request information" form below the program tables with your name, email, phone, ZIP code and start time. Your request goes straight to that one school, so you can ask about costs and start dates directly.

In Bureau of Labor Statistics data, medical assistants in Texas earn 14% below the US median of $45,690. Among all 50 states plus Washington, DC, Texas ranks 42nd out of 51 for typical medical assistant pay.

The mean wage in the state runs slightly above the median, at $41,240 per year. The average is pulled up a little by the best-paid workers, so the $39,520 median is a better guide to what you would likely earn.

Pay in Texas ranges widely. Medical assistants in the lowest-paid 10% make $31,200 or less, while those in the best-paid 10% make $49,260 or more.

The middle half of all medical assistants in Texas earn somewhere from $36,520 to $46,180 a year, according to federal pay figures.

Your location matters a great deal. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos pays the most of any Texas metro area, at a median of $45,820 a year.

Eagle Pass has the lowest median of any Texas metro area, at $29,490. The most medical assistant jobs are in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, where roughly 20,560 people work in the role.

If you're comparing health care jobs, here's how their median pay in Texas stacks up. In Texas, medical assistants make slightly more than nursing assistants ($37,500) and slightly less than phlebotomists ($40,450), based on BLS numbers.

Registered nurses and licensed practical or vocational nurses earn more than medical assistants in Texas, while nursing assistants earn less, and many medical assistant programs take about nine months.

Around 75,340 medical assistants work in Texas, equal to 5.4 out of every 1,000 jobs statewide. That places Texas at 25 of 51 for how widespread the occupation is.

The outlook for growth is strong. The state labor agency expects medical assistant positions to grow from 71,610 jobs in 2024 to 87,160 by 2034, which is a 21.7% jump. For the country overall, Projections Central reports expected growth of 12.5%.

Texas comes in at 10 of 51 for projected growth. Roughly 10,970 openings should appear each year, including both newly created positions and spots left by people exiting the field.

Our listings include 70 Texas schools that reported medical assistant graduates in the government's college survey, visible on College Navigator. Of those schools, 33 run an accredited program. Accreditation means a recognized outside body for this field, either CAAHEP or ABHES, has reviewed the program and confirmed it meets established standards.

Career school programs usually run somewhere between 7 and 9 months, with 9 months as the median. These are national figures from federal school data, where the shortest take just 2 months while a small number stretch past a year.

What you pay depends on the kind of school:

• At career schools that publish a whole-program price, the median cost comes to $17,257 once you add up tuition, fees, and books
• At public colleges, in-district students pay a median of $4,346 for full-time tuition and fees over one year

Online programs teach classes by distance education, but the supervised clinical practice is always in person.