Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area

Pay in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area against Utah and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $50,280, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area earns $35,140–$45,770. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $10,630 wide, against $11,760 across Utah and $12,010 nationally: employers in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $4,820 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $5,810, or about $7,497 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 the High Desert Utah nonmetro area, and the Utah statewide median of $44,330 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area

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 $11,601 to the $39,960 median and brings it to $51,561 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 the High Desert Utah nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($40,160) and data entry specialists ($37,640). Project Coordinator is the highest at $92,550.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #12 of the 15 roles we track in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area (-13.0%), between office managers (-11.9%) and recruiters (-14.8%). The typical role here is at -10.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.5% of the jobs in the 14 of these roles with a job count in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area, 2.8% across Utah and 6.2% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 7 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $39,960 in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area to $46,950 in Salt Lake City-Murray, a gap of $6,990 a year. All 4 areas in Utah with more medical administrative assistants than the High Desert Utah nonmetro area also pay more, among them Salt Lake City-Murray, UT ($46,950) and Provo-Orem, UT ($41,950).

the High Desert Utah nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the High Desert Utah nonmetro area is #408 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Utah, Greenville and Punta Gorda pay just above the High Desert Utah nonmetro area and Memphis and Altoona just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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