Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Columbus, IN

Pay in Columbus against Indiana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Columbus earns $36,460–$45,630. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $53,840, only 1.5 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 $9,170 wide, between the figure for Indiana ($9,150) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,520 over it, while the 25th sits $5,650 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,542 more a year with benefits. 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 Columbus, and the Indiana statewide median of $44,060 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 Columbus

At the $42,110 median, a local hire costs about $54,335 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,225 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 Columbus

Of the 14 roles we track in Columbus, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($42,700) and virtual receptionists ($35,560). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,510.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 14 roles we track in Columbus (-8.3%), between bookkeepers (-7.9%) and sales development representatives (-9.8%). The typical role here is at -9.0%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.4% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Columbus, 8.1% across Indiana and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $38,220 in Evansville to $46,030 in Indianapolis-Carmel, a gap of $7,810 a year. Of the 12 areas in Indiana with more medical administrative assistants than Columbus, 8 pay less, the largest of them the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,930), Evansville, IN ($38,220) and the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,720).

Columbus against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Columbus is #353 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Des Moines-West Des Moines and Traverse City pay just above Columbus and Provo-Orem and Columbia just below. All four are within $220 a year of the median in Columbus. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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