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Average Office And Administrative Support Workers, All Other Salary in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

Office And Administrative Support Workers, All Other in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX earn a median annual salary of $31,630, which is -30.7% compared to the national median. There are 920 workers employed locally in this occupation.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025 estimates for Brownsville-Harlingen, TX (metro area).

$31,630
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX median annual wage
$15/hour median
-30.7%
Difference vs national median
National median is $45,670
920
Local employment
5.8 jobs per 1,000 workers
4.71
Location quotient
Above 1.00 means the occupation is more concentrated here than nationally
Pay distribution

Local wage range

10th
$31,140
25th
$31,630
Median
$31,630
75th
$35,700
90th
$47,670

All values are percentiles of annual wages.

This local range is the useful part of the page. The median tells you the center of the market in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX, while the percentile band shows how compressed or wide the local pay distribution actually is.

Regional price parity

Cost-of-living context

All-items regional price parity
86.0%
Exact metro RPP match
Median wage adjusted to the national price level
$36,790
Goods: 93.8%
Services: 81.2%
Rents: 57.7%
Comparison links

Comparable metros for this occupation

Metro Median annual wage Compare Employment
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA $72,830 Compare 150
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $67,490 Compare 60
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $66,710 Compare 1,340
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $65,060 Compare 40
Lansing-East Lansing, MI $64,440 Compare 1,140
Napa, CA $62,630 Compare 70

The point of this table is not random nearby places. It is to show the other labor markets where this same occupation looks stronger or weaker on the same OEWS release.

Area context

Top occupations in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

Occupation Median annual wage LQ
Physicians, All Other $330,890 0.42
Family Medicine Physicians $215,480 0.76
Chief Executives $178,860 0.25
Pediatricians, General $168,640 1.17
Architectural And Engineering Managers $157,160 0.24
Computer And Information Systems Managers $137,880 0.26
Dentists, General $134,550 0.67
Pharmacists $131,280 0.73

Brownsville-Harlingen, TX has salary data for 314 occupations. The highest-paid occupation in this area is Physicians, All Other.

Historical series

Trend for Office And Administrative Support Workers, All Other in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

Historical trend data is not yet available for this occupation in this area.

Interpretation

Outlook and page notes

Nationally, Office And Administrative Support Workers, All Other are projected to change by -7.8% from 2024 to 2034, with 21,300 annual openings.

Use this page to answer three separate questions: what the occupation pays here, how large the local market is, and whether this market is unusually concentrated for the occupation.

For metro pages in particular, read long-term trend rows as directional until the area comparability layer is fully wired. OEWS area definitions can change over time, and that matters more at the metro level than at the state level.