Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Glens Falls, NY

Pay in Glens Falls against New York and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Glens Falls earns $40,090–$48,430. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $54,450, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($45,490) 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 only $8,340 wide, against $12,150 across New York and $12,010 nationally: employers in Glens Falls 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 $2,710 over it, while the 25th sits $5,630 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,497 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 Glens Falls, and the New York statewide median of $47,710 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Glens Falls

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 $13,274 to the $45,720 median and brings it to $58,994 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 Glens Falls

Of the 15 roles we track in Glens Falls, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($45,830) and virtual receptionists ($39,440). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,840.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 15 roles we track in Glens Falls (-0.5%), between customer support specialists (+2.4%) and administrative assistants (-2.1%). The typical role here is at -4.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Glens Falls than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.8% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Glens Falls, 5.3% across New York and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New York

Across the 15 areas of New York with data for this job, the median runs from $38,140 in Watertown-Fort Drum to $49,230 in New York-Newark, a gap of $11,090 a year. Of the 11 areas in New York with more medical administrative assistants than Glens Falls, 8 pay less, the largest of them Rochester, NY ($44,380), Albany-Schenectady, NY ($45,140) and Syracuse, NY ($44,870).

Glens Falls against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Glens Falls is #354 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside New York, El Centro and Lincoln pay just above Glens Falls and Pueblo and Charlotte-Concord just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Glens Falls. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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