Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area

Pay in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area against Illinois and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area earns $38,050–$46,920. The top tenth earns $57,150 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($44,050) 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 $8,870 wide, against $9,850 across Illinois and $12,010 nationally: employers in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area 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 $1,890 over it, while the 25th sits $6,980 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,439 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 median and the 75th percentile in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area, and the Illinois statewide median of $46,670 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area

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 $13,073 to the $45,030 median and brings it to $58,103 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 the East Central Illinois nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($46,430) and HR assistants ($44,980). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,680.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area (-2.0%), between e-commerce order specialists (+15.9%) and payroll specialists (-4.4%). The typical role here is at -8.5%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area, 4.5% across Illinois and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $37,660 in Kankakee to $47,680 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $10,020 a year. Of the 5 areas in Illinois with more medical administrative assistants than the East Central Illinois nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Springfield, IL ($43,350), Peoria, IL ($44,530) and the West Central Illinois nonmetro area ($38,590).

the East Central Illinois nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the East Central Illinois nonmetro area is #206 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Fort Wayne and Miami-Fort Lauderdale pay just above the East Central Illinois nonmetro area and Greeley and Lexington Park just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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