Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Bangor, ME

Pay in Bangor against Maine and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $58,580, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Bangor earns $43,510–$49,250. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $5,740 wide, against $6,030 across Maine and $12,010 nationally: employers in Bangor 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 $1,610 over it, while the 25th sits $4,130 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,077 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 Bangor, and the Maine statewide median of $46,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Bangor

At the $47,640 median, a local hire costs about $61,471 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,831 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 Bangor

Of the 16 roles we track in Bangor, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($47,920) and data entry specialists ($47,530). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,410.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 16 roles we track in Bangor (+3.7%), between virtual receptionists (+4.3%) and administrative assistants (+1.3%). The typical role here is at -7.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Bangor than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Bangor, 8.5% across Maine and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maine

Across the 5 areas of Maine with data for this job, the median runs from $44,080 in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area to $47,720 in Lewiston-Auburn, a gap of $3,640 a year. All 2 areas in Maine with more medical administrative assistants than Bangor pay less, among them Portland-South Portland, ME ($47,200) and the Southwest Maine nonmetro area ($47,120).

Bangor against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bangor is #241 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 Maine, Chicago-Naperville and Baltimore-Columbia pay just above Bangor and Kenosha and Oshkosh-Neenah just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Bangor. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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