Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Grants Pass, OR

Pay in Grants Pass against Oregon and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $63,230, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Grants Pass earns $44,830–$56,840. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,010 wide, between the figure for Oregon ($12,860) 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 $7,410 over the median, the 25th only $4,600 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,561 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 25th percentile and the median in Grants Pass, and the Oregon statewide median of $50,130 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Grants Pass

At the $49,430 median, a local hire costs about $63,781 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,351 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 Grants Pass

Of the 14 roles we track in Grants Pass, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($52,830) and bookkeepers ($49,270). Project Coordinator is the highest at $95,640.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 14 roles we track in Grants Pass (+7.6%); sales development representatives come last (-24.5%). The typical role here is at -4.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Grants Pass than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 14.0% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Grants Pass, 9.0% across Oregon and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $46,100 in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area to $54,560 in Portland-Vancouver, a gap of $8,460 a year. Of the 10 areas in Oregon with more medical administrative assistants than Grants Pass, 7 pay less, the largest of them Eugene-Springfield, OR ($48,380), Salem, OR ($48,920) and Medford, OR ($47,230).

Grants Pass against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Grants Pass is #394 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Oregon, Honolulu and Yuba City pay just above Grants Pass and New York-Newark and Spokane-Spokane Valley just below. All four are within $230 a year of the median in Grants Pass. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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