Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Colorado Springs, CO

Pay in Colorado Springs against Colorado and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Colorado Springs earns $39,670–$48,910. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $51,180, 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 $9,240 wide, against $9,470 across Colorado and $12,010 nationally: employers in Colorado Springs pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $5,010 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $4,230, or about $5,458 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 Colorado Springs, and the Colorado statewide median of $46,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Colorado Springs

At the $44,680 median, a local hire costs about $57,652 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,972 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 Colorado Springs

Of the 17 roles we track in Colorado Springs, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($46,120) and data entry specialists ($41,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $111,740.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Colorado Springs (-2.7%), between administrative assistants (-1.1%) and bookkeepers (-7.6%). The typical role here is at +1.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Colorado Springs than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.0% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in Colorado Springs, 3.7% across Colorado and 6.2% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $44,140 in Grand Junction to $49,890 in Boulder, a gap of $5,750 a year. The one area in Colorado with more medical administrative assistants, Denver-Aurora, CO ($47,810), also pays more.

Colorado Springs against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Colorado Springs is #109 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Colorado, Topeka and Kalamazoo-Portage pay just above Colorado Springs and Charleston-North Charleston and Grand Island just below. All four are within $180 a year of the median in Colorado Springs. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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