Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Jacksonville, NC

Pay in Jacksonville against North Carolina and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $49,020, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Jacksonville earns $35,500–$44,830. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,330 wide, against $9,510 across North Carolina and $12,010 nationally: employers in Jacksonville 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 $6,250 over the median, the 25th only $3,080 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,065 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Jacksonville, and the North Carolina statewide median of $44,190 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 Jacksonville

At the $38,580 median, a local hire costs about $49,781 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,201 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 Jacksonville

Of the 16 roles we track in Jacksonville, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($38,590) and data entry specialists ($36,840). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,240.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 16 roles we track in Jacksonville (-16.0%), between bookkeepers (-15.3%) and paralegals (-17.9%). The typical role here is at -19.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Jacksonville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Jacksonville, 10.9% across North Carolina and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $37,600 in Fayetteville to $46,860 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $9,260 a year. Of the 15 areas in North Carolina with more medical administrative assistants than Jacksonville, 5 pay less, the largest of them the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($37,860), the Central North Carolina nonmetro area ($38,140) and Hickory-Lenoir, NC ($38,380).

Jacksonville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Jacksonville is #288 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Cleveland and Joplin pay just above Jacksonville and Macon-Bibb County and Charleston just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Jacksonville. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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