Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Barnstable Town, MA

Pay in Barnstable Town against Massachusetts and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $66,620, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Barnstable Town earns $47,330–$61,190. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $13,860 wide, wider than in Massachusetts as a whole ($11,430) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Barnstable Town 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 $9,250 over the median, the 25th only $4,610 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,935 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Barnstable Town, and the Massachusetts statewide median of $50,290 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Barnstable Town

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $15,079 to the $51,940 median and brings it to $67,019 a year. 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 Barnstable Town

Of the 14 roles we track in Barnstable Town, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($55,040) and customer support specialists ($47,880). Project Coordinator is the highest at $102,980.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 14 roles we track in Barnstable Town (+13.1%), between accountants (+14.9%) and payroll specialists (+9.7%). The typical role here is at +5.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Barnstable Town than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.6% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Barnstable Town, 5.8% across Massachusetts and 6.2% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Massachusetts

Across the 7 areas of Massachusetts with data for this job, the median runs from $47,290 in Worcester to $51,940 in Barnstable Town, a gap of $4,650 a year. All 3 areas in Massachusetts with more medical administrative assistants than Barnstable Town pay less, among them Boston-Cambridge, MA-NH ($51,600) and Worcester, MA ($47,290).

Barnstable Town against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Barnstable Town is #273 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 Massachusetts, Kahului-Wailuku and Olympia-Lacey pay just above Barnstable Town and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Albany just below. All four are within $960 a year of the median in Barnstable Town. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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