Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Gainesville, GA

Pay in Gainesville against Georgia and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $55,810, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Gainesville earns $37,830–$48,950. The mean ($44,700) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $11,120 wide, between the figure for Georgia ($10,870) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,890 over it, while the 25th sits $7,230 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $5,019 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 Gainesville, and the Georgia statewide median of $43,160 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Gainesville

At the $45,060 median, a local hire costs about $58,142 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,082 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 Gainesville

Of the 17 roles we track in Gainesville, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($48,430) and e-commerce order specialists ($41,440). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,970.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Gainesville (-1.9%), between data entry specialists (+0.2%) and virtual receptionists (-2.9%). The typical role here is at -10.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Gainesville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 12.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Gainesville, 7.7% across Georgia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $34,980 in Valdosta to $46,370 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs, a gap of $11,390 a year. Of the 7 areas in Georgia with more medical administrative assistants than Gainesville, 6 pay less, the largest of them Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC ($38,070), Savannah, GA ($39,430) and the South Georgia nonmetro area ($36,080).

Gainesville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Gainesville is #165 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Georgia, Albany-Schenectady and Kansas City pay just above Gainesville and Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Fort Wayne just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Gainesville. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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