Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area against Washington and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area earns $42,760–$51,410. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,530, 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 $8,650 wide, against $14,330 across Washington and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Eastern Washington 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 $2,250 over it, while the 25th sits $6,400 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,903 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 25th percentile and the median in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, and the Washington statewide median of $58,100 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area

At the $49,160 median, a local hire costs about $63,432 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,272 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 Eastern Washington nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($50,530) and customer support specialists ($48,550). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,780.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area (+7.0%), between office managers (+7.5%) and recruiters (+2.1%). The typical role here is at +4.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, 3.2% across Washington and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Washington

Across the 13 areas of Washington with data for this job, the median runs from $46,810 in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee to $60,350 in Seattle-Tacoma, a gap of $13,540 a year. Of the 6 areas in Washington with more medical administrative assistants than the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, 1 pays less: Yakima, WA ($47,500).

the Eastern Washington nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Washington nonmetro area is #400 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Washington, Mankato and Trenton-Princeton pay just above the Eastern Washington nonmetro area and Pittsfield and Salem just below. All four are within $240 a year of the median in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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