Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Burlington, NC

Pay in Burlington against North Carolina and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $55,190, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Burlington earns $37,710–$46,280. The mean ($43,200) 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 only $8,570 wide, against $9,510 across North Carolina and $12,010 nationally: employers in Burlington 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 $2,090 over it, while the 25th sits $6,480 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,697 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 median and the 75th percentile in Burlington, and the North Carolina statewide median of $44,190 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Burlington

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 $12,829 to the $44,190 median and brings it to $57,019 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 Burlington

Of the 15 roles we track in Burlington, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($44,630) and customer support specialists ($41,040). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,370.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 15 roles we track in Burlington (-3.8%), between marketing specialists (-1.1%) and accountants (-4.0%). The typical role here is at -8.3%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Burlington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.4% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Burlington, 11.0% across North Carolina and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $37,600 in Fayetteville to $46,860 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $9,260 a year. Of the 14 areas in North Carolina with more medical administrative assistants than Burlington, 9 pay less, the largest of them Asheville, NC ($41,520), the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($37,860) and Wilmington, NC ($40,040).

Burlington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Burlington is #257 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Houston-Pasadena and York-Hanover pay just above Burlington and Grand Junction and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Burlington. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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