Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area

Pay in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area against Montana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area earns $37,080–$45,700. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,990, 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 $8,620 wide, against $8,770 across Montana and $12,010 nationally: employers in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area 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 $5,500 over the median, the 25th only $3,120 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,097 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 the East-Central Montana nonmetro area, and the Montana statewide median of $43,740 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 the East-Central Montana nonmetro area

At the $40,200 median, a local hire costs about $51,871 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,671 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 the East-Central Montana nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($44,580) and administrative assistants ($40,060). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,920.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #9 of the 14 roles we track in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area (-12.5%), between office managers (-11.8%) and administrative assistants (-15.7%). The typical role here is at -11.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.3% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area, 10.6% across Montana and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Montana

Across the 8 areas of Montana with data for this job, the median runs from $40,200 in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area to $47,500 in Bozeman, a gap of $7,300 a year. All 4 areas in Montana with more medical administrative assistants than the East-Central Montana nonmetro area also pay more, among them the West Montana nonmetro area ($43,080) and Billings, MT ($43,710).

the East-Central Montana nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the East-Central Montana nonmetro area is #357 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Montana, Ames and Odessa pay just above the East-Central Montana nonmetro area and Columbia and Sherman-Denison just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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