Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Cleveland, TN

Pay in Cleveland against Tennessee and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $53,240, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Cleveland earns $34,990–$44,770. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,780 wide, against $10,410 across Tennessee and $12,010 nationally: employers in Cleveland 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 $6,190 over the median, the 25th only $3,590 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,987 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 Cleveland, and the Tennessee statewide median of $39,940 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Cleveland

At the $38,580 median, a local hire costs about $49,781 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,201 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 Cleveland

Of the 15 roles we track in Cleveland, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($41,120) and customer support specialists ($37,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,720.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 15 roles we track in Cleveland (-16.0%), between office managers (-14.8%) and customer support specialists (-16.0%). The typical role here is at -17.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 14.1% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Cleveland, 11.7% across Tennessee and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $36,230 in the East Tennessee nonmetro area to $45,570 in Nashville-Murfreesboro, a gap of $9,340 a year. Of the 13 areas in Tennessee with more medical administrative assistants than Cleveland, 10 pay less, the largest of them Knoxville, TN ($38,420), the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area ($37,230) and Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA ($36,800).

Cleveland against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Cleveland is #301 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Tennessee, Joplin and Killeen-Temple pay just above Cleveland and Jacksonville and Macon-Bibb County just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in Cleveland. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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