Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Evansville, IN

Pay in Evansville against Indiana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Evansville earns $36,760–$45,160. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,200, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($41,690) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,400 wide, against $9,150 across Indiana and $12,010 nationally: employers in Evansville 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 $6,940 over the median, the 25th only $1,460 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,955 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 Evansville, and the Indiana statewide median of $44,060 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 Evansville

At the $38,220 median, a local hire costs about $49,316 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,096 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 Evansville

Of the 17 roles we track in Evansville, this one ranks #16 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($38,370) and virtual receptionists ($33,860). Project Coordinator is the highest at $89,990.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in Evansville (-16.8%), between recruiters (-16.4%) and payroll specialists (-17.2%). The typical role here is at -12.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Evansville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Evansville, 7.9% across Indiana and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $38,220 in Evansville to $46,030 in Indianapolis-Carmel, a gap of $7,810 a year. All 3 areas in Indiana with more medical administrative assistants than Evansville also pay more, among them Indianapolis-Carmel, IN ($46,030) and Fort Wayne, IN ($45,030).

Evansville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Evansville is #178 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 Indiana, Albany and Baton Rouge pay just above Evansville and Waco and Sierra Vista-Douglas just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in Evansville. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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