Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Billings, MT

Pay in Billings against Montana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Billings earns $39,230–$48,180. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,900, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $8,950 wide, between the figure for Montana ($8,770) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $4,470 a year in pay and about $5,768 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $4,480 in pay. 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 median and the 75th percentile in Billings, and the Montana statewide median of $43,740 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Billings

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 $12,690 to the $43,710 median and brings it to $56,400 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 Billings

Of the 15 roles we track in Billings, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($44,580) and administrative assistants ($43,680). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,540.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 15 roles we track in Billings (-4.8%), between data entry specialists (-3.2%) and bookkeepers (-5.6%). The typical role here is at -8.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Billings than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.0% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Billings, 10.6% across Montana and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Montana

Across the 8 areas of Montana with data for this job, the median runs from $40,200 in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area to $47,500 in Bozeman, a gap of $7,300 a year. The one area in Montana with more medical administrative assistants, the West Montana nonmetro area ($43,080), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

Billings against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Billings is #204 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Montana, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Abilene pay just above Billings and Salisbury and Harrisonburg just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Billings. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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