Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Bozeman, MT

Pay in Bozeman against Montana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Bozeman earns $43,260–$49,730. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $57,860, only 1.5 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 only $6,470 wide, against $8,770 across Montana and $12,010 nationally: employers in Bozeman 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 $2,230 over it, while the 25th sits $4,240 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,877 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 Bozeman, and the Montana statewide median of $43,740 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Bozeman

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 $13,790 to the $47,500 median and brings it to $61,290 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 Bozeman

Of the 13 roles we track in Bozeman, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($49,820) and administrative assistants ($47,420). Project Coordinator is the highest at $99,090.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 13 roles we track in Bozeman (+3.4%), between payroll specialists (+4.4%) and administrative assistants (-0.3%). The typical role here is at -3.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Bozeman than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.5% of the jobs in these 13 roles in Bozeman, 12.1% across Montana and 7.4% 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. All 3 areas in Montana with more medical administrative assistants than Bozeman pay less, among them the West Montana nonmetro area ($43,080) and Billings, MT ($43,710).

Bozeman against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bozeman is #266 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 Montana, Waterbury-Shelton and Redding pay just above Bozeman and Yakima and La Crosse-Onalaska just below. All four are within $20 a year of the median in Bozeman. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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