Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY

Pay in Huntington-Ashland against West Virginia and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Huntington-Ashland earns $34,040–$39,890. The top tenth earns $48,550 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $5,850 wide, against $10,100 across West Virginia and $12,010 nationally: employers in Huntington-Ashland pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $2,390 a year in pay and about $3,084 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $3,460 in pay. 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 Huntington-Ashland, and the West Virginia statewide median of $38,430 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 Huntington-Ashland

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 $10,887 to the $37,500 median and brings it to $48,387 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 Huntington-Ashland

Of the 16 roles we track in Huntington-Ashland, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($38,060) and data entry specialists ($36,410). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,590.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in Huntington-Ashland (-18.4%), between paralegals (-17.5%) and administrative assistants (-19.5%). The typical role here is at -18.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.8% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Huntington-Ashland, 2.6% across West Virginia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in West Virginia

Across the 9 areas of West Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $36,370 in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area to $39,200 in Wheeling, a gap of $2,830 a year. No other area in West Virginia has as many medical administrative assistants, and 3 of the other 8 pay less.

Huntington-Ashland against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Huntington-Ashland is #134 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 West Virginia, Fayetteville and Decatur pay just above Huntington-Ashland and Sebring and Shreveport-Bossier City just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Huntington-Ashland. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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