Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Kankakee, IL

Pay in Kankakee against Illinois and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Kankakee earns $37,660–$46,590. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,830, only 1.3 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($41,340) 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 only $8,930 wide, against $9,850 across Illinois and $12,010 nationally: employers in Kankakee 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 $8,930 a year in pay and about $11,523 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $0 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 median and the 75th percentile in Kankakee, and the Illinois statewide median of $46,670 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in Kankakee

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 $10,934 to the $37,660 median and brings it to $48,594 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 Kankakee

Of the 13 roles we track in Kankakee, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($38,790) and virtual receptionists ($35,620). Project Coordinator is the highest at $95,790.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 13 roles we track in Kankakee (-18.0%), between recruiters (-16.1%) and sales development representatives (-20.8%). The typical role here is at -11.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Kankakee than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.1% of the jobs in these 13 roles in Kankakee, 4.7% across Illinois and 6.3% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $37,660 in Kankakee to $47,680 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $10,020 a year. All 10 areas in Illinois with more medical administrative assistants than Kankakee also pay more, among them Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN ($47,680) and Springfield, IL ($43,350).

Kankakee against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Kankakee is #384 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 Illinois, Brunswick-St. Simons and Rome pay just above Kankakee and Beckley and Mansfield just below. All four are within $20 a year of the median in Kankakee. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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