Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Grand Junction, CO

Pay in Grand Junction against Colorado and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Grand Junction earns $39,630–$47,250. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,560, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($43,370) 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 $7,620 wide, against $9,470 across Colorado and $12,010 nationally: employers in Grand Junction pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $4,510 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $3,110, or about $4,013 once benefits are added. 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 Grand Junction, and the Colorado statewide median of $46,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Grand Junction

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 $12,815 to the $44,140 median and brings it to $56,955 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 Grand Junction

Of the 16 roles we track in Grand Junction, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($45,510) and e-commerce order specialists ($41,530). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,690.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in Grand Junction (-3.9%), between office managers (-3.3%) and administrative assistants (-4.3%). The typical role here is at -6.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Grand Junction, 3.6% across Colorado and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger 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. All 5 areas in Colorado with more medical administrative assistants than Grand Junction also pay more, among them Denver-Aurora, CO ($47,810) and Colorado Springs, CO ($44,680).

Grand Junction against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Grand Junction is #287 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Burlington and Houston-Pasadena pay just above Grand Junction and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Grand Junction. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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