Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Pay in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against Oregon and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $59,500, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area earns $39,000–$53,130. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $14,130 wide, wider than in Oregon as a whole ($12,860) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $7,030 a year in pay and about $9,071 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,100 in pay. 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 25th percentile and the median in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, and the Oregon statewide median of $50,130 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

At the $46,100 median, a local hire costs about $59,484 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,384 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 the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($46,680) and customer support specialists ($44,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,020.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area (+0.4%), between data entry specialists (+2.4%) and virtual receptionists (-0.4%). The typical role here is at -4.5%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 12.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, 8.8% across Oregon and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $46,100 in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area to $54,560 in Portland-Vancouver, a gap of $8,460 a year. All 5 areas in Oregon with more medical administrative assistants than the Coast Oregon nonmetro area also pay more, among them Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA ($54,560) and Eugene-Springfield, OR ($48,380).

the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Coast Oregon nonmetro area is #167 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Oregon, Cincinnati and Allentown-Bethlehem pay just above the Coast Oregon nonmetro area and Champaign-Urbana and Indianapolis-Carmel just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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