2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Jacksonville, FL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 7,710.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-6013
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$43,880 · 50th
$36,21010th
$38,02025th
$43,88050th
$47,38075th
$55,24090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Jacksonville earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$43,880 in Jacksonville buys what $44,100 buys across the country as a whole.

Jacksonville's regional price parity is 99.5 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Florida

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Jacksonville
Gainesville$45,960$47,50096.7+7.7%
North Port$45,490$44,400102.4+0.7%
Miami$45,060$39,500114.2−10.5%
Naples$44,970$43,600103.2−1.2%
Cape Coral$43,880$42,900102.3−2.8%
Jacksonville This page$43,880$44,10099.5
Tampa$43,770$43,400100.9−1.6%
Port St. Lucie$41,600$41,500100.2−5.9%

Price parity and difference against Jacksonville are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 18.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Jacksonville earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
7,710 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-6013, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as medical-secretaries-and-administrative-assistants.

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