Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO

Pay in Fort Collins-Loveland against Colorado and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Fort Collins-Loveland earns $40,370–$47,380. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $54,080, 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 only $7,010 wide, against $9,470 across Colorado and $12,010 nationally: employers in Fort Collins-Loveland 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 $2,190 over it, while the 25th sits $4,820 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,826 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 median and the 75th percentile in Fort Collins-Loveland, and the Colorado statewide median of $46,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Fort Collins-Loveland

At the $45,190 median, a local hire costs about $58,310 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,120 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 Fort Collins-Loveland

Of the 17 roles we track in Fort Collins-Loveland, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($47,130) and data entry specialists ($43,640). Project Coordinator is the highest at $101,310.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #14 of the 17 roles we track in Fort Collins-Loveland (-1.6%), between project coordinators (-1.0%) and customer support specialists (-4.1%). The typical role here is at +5.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Fort Collins-Loveland than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Fort Collins-Loveland, 3.6% across Colorado and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $44,140 in Grand Junction to $49,890 in Boulder, a gap of $5,750 a year. Of the 3 areas in Colorado with more medical administrative assistants than Fort Collins-Loveland, 1 pays less: Colorado Springs, CO ($44,680).

Fort Collins-Loveland against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Fort Collins-Loveland is #243 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Reading and Kingston pay just above Fort Collins-Loveland and Boise City and Kansas City just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in Fort Collins-Loveland. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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