Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Elizabethtown, KY

Pay in Elizabethtown against Kentucky and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $49,830, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Elizabethtown earns $34,740–$44,610. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,870 wide, against $10,010 across Kentucky and $12,010 nationally: employers in Elizabethtown 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 $7,690 over the median, the 25th only $2,180 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,923 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 Elizabethtown, and the Kentucky statewide median of $38,750 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 Elizabethtown

At the $36,920 median, a local hire costs about $47,639 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,719 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 Elizabethtown

Of the 15 roles we track in Elizabethtown, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,480) and virtual receptionists ($33,020). Recruiter is the highest at $78,850.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #13 of the 15 roles we track in Elizabethtown (-19.6%), between marketing specialists (-18.2%) and project coordinators (-24.5%). The typical role here is at -13.5%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Elizabethtown than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Elizabethtown, 13.5% across Kentucky and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 10 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $35,300 in the East Kentucky nonmetro area to $44,450 in Lexington-Fayette, a gap of $9,150 a year. Of the 8 areas in Kentucky with more medical administrative assistants than Elizabethtown, 4 pay less, the largest of them the South Central Kentucky nonmetro area ($36,690), the Central Kentucky nonmetro area ($36,720) and the East Kentucky nonmetro area ($35,300).

Elizabethtown against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Elizabethtown is #294 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Kentucky, Longview and Florence pay just above Elizabethtown and Enid and Jackson just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Elizabethtown. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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