Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Corvallis, OR

Pay in Corvallis against Oregon and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $61,520, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Corvallis earns $42,600–$58,230. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $15,630 wide, wider than in Oregon as a whole ($12,860) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Corvallis depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $10,380 over the median, the 25th only $5,250 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $13,394 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 25th percentile and the median in Corvallis, and the Oregon statewide median of $50,130 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Corvallis

At the $47,850 median, a local hire costs about $61,742 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,892 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 Corvallis

Of the 15 roles we track in Corvallis, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($49,970) and customer support specialists ($44,520). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,420.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 15 roles we track in Corvallis (+4.2%), between administrative assistants (+5.1%) and payroll specialists (+3.7%). The typical role here is at -0.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Corvallis than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 12.3% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Corvallis, 8.9% 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. Of the 8 areas in Oregon with more medical administrative assistants than Corvallis, 4 pay less, the largest of them Medford, OR ($47,230), the Coast Oregon nonmetro area ($46,100) and the Central Oregon nonmetro area ($47,040).

Corvallis against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Corvallis is #333 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Oregon, Duluth and Amherst Town-Northampton pay just above Corvallis and Denver-Aurora and Springfield just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Corvallis. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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