Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Dover, DE

Pay in Dover against Delaware and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Dover earns $36,200–$45,130. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,020, only 1.4 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 $8,930 wide, against $9,070 across Delaware and $12,010 nationally: employers in Dover 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 $6,270 over the median, the 25th only $2,660 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,090 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 Dover, and the Delaware statewide median of $44,500 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 Dover

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 $11,282 to the $38,860 median and brings it to $50,142 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 Dover

Of the 16 roles we track in Dover, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($42,120) and data entry specialists ($37,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $109,940.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #15 of the 16 roles we track in Dover (-15.4%), between accountants (-13.1%) and marketing specialists (-16.8%). The typical role here is at -8.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Dover than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.3% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Dover, 8.4% across Delaware and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Delaware

Across the 2 areas of Delaware with data for this job, the median runs from $38,860 in Dover to $42,830 in the Sussex Delaware nonmetro area, a gap of $3,970 a year. The one area in Delaware with more medical administrative assistants, the Sussex Delaware nonmetro area ($42,830), also pays more.

Dover against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Dover is #274 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Delaware, Oklahoma City and Jefferson City pay just above Dover and Cedar Rapids and Amarillo just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in Dover. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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