Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV

Pay in Hagerstown-Martinsburg against Maryland and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Hagerstown-Martinsburg earns $38,720–$49,080. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $54,370, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $10,360 wide, against $12,230 across Maryland and $12,010 nationally: employers in Hagerstown-Martinsburg pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,420 over the median, the 25th only $2,940 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,574 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 median and the 75th percentile in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, and the Maryland statewide median of $47,850 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Hagerstown-Martinsburg

At the $41,660 median, a local hire costs about $53,755 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,095 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg

Of the 16 roles we track in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($43,740) and customer support specialists ($38,200). Project Coordinator is the highest at $88,600.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in Hagerstown-Martinsburg (-9.3%), between bookkeepers (-8.2%) and executive assistants (-9.6%). The typical role here is at -9.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.5% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, 5.7% across Maryland and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maryland

Across the 5 areas of Maryland with data for this job, the median runs from $41,660 in Hagerstown-Martinsburg to $47,680 in Baltimore-Columbia, a gap of $6,020 a year. All 3 areas in Maryland with more medical administrative assistants than Hagerstown-Martinsburg also pay more, among them Baltimore-Columbia, MD ($47,680) and the Maryland nonmetro area ($44,590).

Hagerstown-Martinsburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Hagerstown-Martinsburg is #328 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Maryland, Akron and Decatur pay just above Hagerstown-Martinsburg and Bloomington and Tucson just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in Hagerstown-Martinsburg. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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