Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA

Pay in Brunswick-St. Simons against Georgia and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Brunswick-St. Simons earns $37,070–$46,060. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,550, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($41,020) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,990 wide, against $10,870 across Georgia and $12,010 nationally: employers in Brunswick-St. Simons pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $8,390 over the median, the 25th only $600 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $10,826 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 median and the 75th percentile in Brunswick-St. Simons, and the Georgia statewide median of $43,160 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Brunswick-St. Simons

At the $37,670 median, a local hire costs about $48,606 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,936 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 Brunswick-St. Simons

Of the 14 roles we track in Brunswick-St. Simons, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($45,240) and administrative assistants ($36,470). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,070.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 14 roles we track in Brunswick-St. Simons (-18.0%), between office managers (-17.6%) and customer support specialists (-19.1%). The typical role here is at -17.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 13.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Brunswick-St. Simons, 7.8% across Georgia and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $34,980 in Valdosta to $46,370 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs, a gap of $11,390 a year. Of the 13 areas in Georgia with more medical administrative assistants than Brunswick-St. Simons, 3 pay less: the South Georgia nonmetro area ($36,080), the Middle Georgia nonmetro area ($36,680) and the East Georgia nonmetro area ($37,210).

Brunswick-St. Simons against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Brunswick-St. Simons is #293 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Georgia, Huntsville and Lafayette pay just above Brunswick-St. Simons and Kankakee and Beckley just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Brunswick-St. Simons. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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