Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $62,160, 1.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $45,080–$58,650. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $13,570 wide, wider than in Alaska as a whole ($10,930) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in the Alaska nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $8,920 over the median, the 25th only $4,650 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,510 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $45,930 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $47,870 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska nonmetro area

At the $49,730 median, a local hire costs about $64,168 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,438 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Alaska nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($57,510) and administrative assistants ($49,190). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,020.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (+8.3%), between payroll specialists (+10.7%) and customer support specialists (+6.4%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Alaska nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.3% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 7.9% across Alaska and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $47,080 in Anchorage to $50,340 in Fairbanks-College, a gap of $3,260 a year. The one area in Alaska with more medical administrative assistants, Anchorage, AK ($47,080), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #286 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Alaska, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and Salinas and Yuba City just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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