Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

Pay in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area against New York and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area earns $39,130–$47,530. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $54,130, 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 only $8,400 wide, against $12,150 across New York and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $4,570 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $3,830, or about $4,942 once benefits are added. 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 the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, and the New York statewide median of $47,710 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

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 $12,687 to the $43,700 median and brings it to $56,387 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 the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($46,870) and customer support specialists ($42,780). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,210.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area (-4.9%), between customer support specialists (-4.4%) and project coordinators (-5.0%). The typical role here is at -4.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area, 5.2% across New York and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New York

Across the 15 areas of New York with data for this job, the median runs from $38,140 in Watertown-Fort Drum to $49,230 in New York-Newark, a gap of $11,090 a year. All 6 areas in New York with more medical administrative assistants than the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area also pay more, among them New York-Newark, NY-NJ ($49,230) and Rochester, NY ($44,380).

the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area is #185 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside New York, Salisbury and Billings pay just above the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area and Helena and Harrisonburg just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in the Capital/Northern New York nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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