Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL

Pay in Deltona-Daytona Beach against Florida and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Deltona-Daytona Beach earns $36,860–$45,360. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $51,620, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($41,780) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,500 wide, against $9,730 across Florida and $12,010 nationally: employers in Deltona-Daytona 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 $7,060 over the median, the 25th only $1,440 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,110 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Deltona-Daytona Beach, and the Florida statewide median of $41,730 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 Deltona-Daytona Beach

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $11,119 to the $38,300 median and brings it to $49,419 a year. 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 Deltona-Daytona Beach

Of the 17 roles we track in Deltona-Daytona Beach, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($38,300) and customer support specialists ($38,030). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,890.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Deltona-Daytona Beach (-16.6%), between sales development representatives (-16.1%) and executive assistants (-20.2%). The typical role here is at -11.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Deltona-Daytona Beach than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Deltona-Daytona 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. All 8 areas in Florida with more medical administrative assistants than Deltona-Daytona Beach also pay more, among them Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL ($45,060) and Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL ($43,770).

Deltona-Daytona Beach against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Deltona-Daytona Beach is #70 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 Florida, Terre Haute and Hammond pay just above Deltona-Daytona Beach and Baton Rouge and Albany just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in Deltona-Daytona Beach. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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