Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Arizona nonmetro area

Pay in the Arizona nonmetro area against Arizona and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $57,300, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Arizona nonmetro area earns $39,110–$48,400. The mean ($45,330) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,290 wide, against $12,170 across Arizona and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Arizona nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,010 over it, while the 25th sits $7,280 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,594 more a year with benefits. 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 Arizona nonmetro area, and the Arizona statewide median of $45,820 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Arizona nonmetro area

At the $46,390 median, a local hire costs about $59,858 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,468 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 Arizona nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area, this one ranks #9 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($46,530) and paralegals ($46,210). Project Coordinator is the highest at $78,250.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area (+1.0%); marketing specialists come last (-36.3%). The typical role here is at -15.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Arizona nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.1% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Arizona nonmetro area, 5.2% across Arizona and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arizona

Across the 8 areas of Arizona with data for this job, the median runs from $38,160 in Sierra Vista-Douglas to $47,110 in Flagstaff, a gap of $8,950 a year. Of the 4 areas in Arizona with more medical administrative assistants than the Arizona nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Tucson, AZ ($41,610), Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ ($40,900) and Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ ($44,260).

the Arizona nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Arizona nonmetro area is #363 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Arizona, Austin-Round Rock and Atlantic City-Hammonton pay just above the Arizona nonmetro area and Atlanta-Sandy Springs and Winston-Salem just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in the Arizona nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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