Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Burlington-South Burlington, VT

Pay in Burlington-South Burlington against Vermont and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Burlington-South Burlington earns $46,520–$60,010. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,560, 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 $13,490 wide, wider than in Vermont as a whole ($12,210) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Burlington-South Burlington depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $10,110 over the median, the 25th only $3,380 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $13,045 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Burlington-South Burlington, and the Vermont statewide median of $48,200 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Burlington-South Burlington

At the $49,900 median, a local hire costs about $64,387 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,487 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 Burlington-South Burlington

Of the 16 roles we track in Burlington-South Burlington, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($50,160) and data entry specialists ($43,400). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,410.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 16 roles we track in Burlington-South Burlington (+8.6%), between e-commerce order specialists (+11.5%) and HR assistants (+7.1%). The typical role here is at +5.3%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Burlington-South Burlington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.5% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in Burlington-South Burlington, 10.2% across Vermont and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Vermont

Across the 3 areas of Vermont with data for this job, the median runs from $46,740 in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area to $49,900 in Burlington-South Burlington, a gap of $3,160 a year. No other area in Vermont has as many medical administrative assistants, and both others pay less.

Burlington-South Burlington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Burlington-South Burlington is #153 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 Vermont, Bridgeport-Stamford and Iowa City pay just above Burlington-South Burlington and Boulder and Hanford-Corcoran just below. All four are within $230 a year of the median in Burlington-South Burlington. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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