Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Gulfport-Biloxi, MS

Pay in Gulfport-Biloxi against Mississippi and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Gulfport-Biloxi earns $31,260–$44,980. The top tenth earns $56,020 or more, 1.8 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($41,220) is 10% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $13,720 wide, wider than in Mississippi as a whole ($11,840) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Gulfport-Biloxi depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,180 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $7,540, or about $9,729 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Gulfport-Biloxi, and the Mississippi statewide median of $36,290 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Gulfport-Biloxi

At the $37,440 median, a local hire costs about $48,310 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,870 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 Gulfport-Biloxi

Of the 17 roles we track in Gulfport-Biloxi, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,540) and data entry specialists ($36,410). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,200.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in Gulfport-Biloxi (-18.5%), between project coordinators (-17.7%) and administrative assistants (-19.9%). The typical role here is at -17.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Gulfport-Biloxi and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Mississippi

Across the 7 areas of Mississippi with data for this job, the median runs from $34,690 in Hattiesburg to $37,440 in Gulfport-Biloxi, a gap of $2,750 a year. All 2 areas in Mississippi with more medical administrative assistants than Gulfport-Biloxi pay less, among them Jackson, MS ($36,880) and the Upper East Mississippi nonmetro area ($34,980).

Gulfport-Biloxi against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Gulfport-Biloxi is #221 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Mississippi, Weirton-Steubenville and Shreveport-Bossier City pay just above Gulfport-Biloxi and Clarksville and Cape Girardeau just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Gulfport-Biloxi. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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