Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Central Missouri nonmetro area

Pay in the Central Missouri nonmetro area against Missouri and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Central Missouri nonmetro area earns $36,210–$43,380. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $47,960, 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 $7,170 wide, against $11,000 across Missouri and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Central Missouri nonmetro area 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 $5,670 over the median, the 25th only $1,500 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,316 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Central Missouri nonmetro area, and the Missouri statewide median of $43,980 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Central Missouri 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 $10,948 to the $37,710 median and brings it to $48,658 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 Central Missouri nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Central Missouri nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($37,760) and customer support specialists ($37,140). Project Coordinator is the highest at $74,080.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in the Central Missouri nonmetro area (-17.9%), between customer support specialists (-17.0%) and office managers (-18.5%). The typical role here is at -18.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Central Missouri nonmetro area, 4.4% across Missouri and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Missouri

Across the 12 areas of Missouri with data for this job, the median runs from $36,810 in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area to $45,620 in St. Louis, a gap of $8,810 a year. Of the 6 areas in Missouri with more medical administrative assistants than the Central Missouri nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Springfield, MO ($37,150) and the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area ($36,810).

the Central Missouri nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Central Missouri nonmetro area is #347 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 Missouri, Lafayette and Athens-Clarke County pay just above the Central Missouri nonmetro area and Huntsville and Rome just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Central Missouri nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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