Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Bloomington, IL

Pay in Bloomington against Illinois and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $56,880, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Bloomington earns $38,830–$49,210. The mean ($44,950) 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 $10,380 wide, between the figure for Illinois ($9,850) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,270 over it, while the 25th sits $7,110 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,219 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 Bloomington, and the Illinois statewide median of $46,670 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Bloomington

At the $45,940 median, a local hire costs about $59,277 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,337 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 Bloomington

Of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington, this one ranks #9 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($51,880) and bookkeepers ($45,220). Project Coordinator is the highest at $101,110.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington (+0.0%), between payroll specialists (+7.1%) and project coordinators (-1.2%). The typical role here is at -7.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Bloomington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Bloomington, 5.2% across Illinois and 7.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $37,660 in Kankakee to $47,680 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $10,020 a year. Of the 8 areas in Illinois with more medical administrative assistants than Bloomington, 5 pay less, the largest of them Springfield, IL ($43,350), Peoria, IL ($44,530) and the West Central Illinois nonmetro area ($38,590).

Bloomington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bloomington is #352 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Gainesville and Buffalo-Cheektowaga pay just above Bloomington and Cleveland and Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Bloomington. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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