Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach, FL

Pay in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach against Florida and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach earns $36,840–$46,040. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $51,060, 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 only $9,200 wide, against $9,730 across Florida and $12,010 nationally: employers in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $6,510 over the median, the 25th only $2,690 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,400 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 median and the 75th percentile in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach, and the Florida statewide median of $41,730 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach

At the $39,530 median, a local hire costs about $51,006 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,476 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 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach

Of the 17 roles we track in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($44,110) and customer support specialists ($39,240). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,180.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach (-13.9%), between customer support specialists (-12.4%) and executive assistants (-17.9%). The typical role here is at -5.4%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach, 8.3% across Florida and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $36,790 in Homosassa Springs to $45,960 in Gainesville, a gap of $9,170 a year. Of the 15 areas in Florida with more medical administrative assistants than Crestview-Fort Walton Beach, 6 pay less, the largest of them Orlando-Kissimmee, FL ($39,520), Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL ($39,520) and Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL ($38,300).

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach is #195 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Lubbock and Corpus Christi pay just above Crestview-Fort Walton Beach and Wichita and Savannah just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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