Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Fayetteville-Springdale, AR

Pay in Fayetteville-Springdale against Arkansas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Fayetteville-Springdale earns $36,730–$44,320. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,260, only 1.4 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 $7,590 wide, between the figure for Arkansas ($7,520) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $5,230 over the median, the 25th only $2,360 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $6,748 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 Fayetteville-Springdale, and the Arkansas statewide median of $37,000 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Fayetteville-Springdale

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 $11,349 to the $39,090 median and brings it to $50,439 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 Fayetteville-Springdale

Of the 17 roles we track in Fayetteville-Springdale, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($39,510) and data entry specialists ($37,640). Marketing Specialist is the highest at $83,000.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in Fayetteville-Springdale (-14.9%), between executive assistants (-14.6%) and payroll specialists (-19.5%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 1.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Fayetteville-Springdale, 2.0% across Arkansas and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arkansas

Across the 9 areas of Arkansas with data for this job, the median runs from $34,980 in the North Arkansas nonmetro area to $39,630 in Little Rock-North Little Rock, a gap of $4,650 a year. The one area in Arkansas with more medical administrative assistants, Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR ($39,630), also pays more.

Fayetteville-Springdale against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Fayetteville-Springdale is #393 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Arkansas, Farmington and Birmingham pay just above Fayetteville-Springdale and Lima and St. Joseph just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in Fayetteville-Springdale. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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