Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Charleston, WV

Pay in Charleston against West Virginia and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $50,690, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Charleston earns $37,610–$44,860. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $7,250 wide, against $10,100 across West Virginia and $12,010 nationally: employers in Charleston 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 $6,320 over the median, the 25th only $930 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,155 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 Charleston, and the West Virginia statewide median of $38,430 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Charleston

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 $11,189 to the $38,540 median and brings it to $49,729 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 Charleston

Of the 16 roles we track in Charleston, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($41,970) and customer support specialists ($37,480). Project Coordinator is the highest at $89,600.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 16 roles we track in Charleston (-16.1%), between bookkeepers (-14.4%) and customer support specialists (-16.3%). The typical role here is at -16.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 2.8% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Charleston, 2.6% across West Virginia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in West Virginia

Across the 9 areas of West Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $36,370 in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area to $39,200 in Wheeling, a gap of $2,830 a year. The one area in West Virginia with more medical administrative assistants, Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY ($37,500), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

Charleston against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Charleston is #411 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside West Virginia, Macon-Bibb County and Jacksonville pay just above Charleston and Youngstown-Warren and Knoxville just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Charleston. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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