Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Columbus, OH

Pay in Columbus against Ohio and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Columbus earns $39,520–$47,960. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $54,840, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($45,490) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,440 wide, against $9,280 across Ohio and $12,010 nationally: employers in Columbus pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $1,740 over it, while the 25th sits $6,700 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,245 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 25th percentile and the median in Columbus, and the Ohio statewide median of $44,280 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Columbus

At the $46,220 median, a local hire costs about $59,639 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,419 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 17 roles we track in Columbus, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($46,350) and data entry specialists ($43,560). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,660.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in Columbus (+0.6%), between administrative assistants (+0.7%) and HR assistants (+0.2%). The typical role here is at -0.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Columbus, 5.7% across Ohio and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $37,650 in Mansfield to $46,220 in Columbus, a gap of $8,570 a year. All 2 areas in Ohio with more medical administrative assistants than Columbus pay less, among them Cincinnati, OH-KY ($46,180) and Cleveland, OH ($45,920).

Columbus against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Columbus is #40 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 Ohio, Omaha and Winston-Salem pay just above Columbus and Janesville-Beloit and Allentown-Bethlehem just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in Columbus. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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