Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Kansas nonmetro area

Pay in the Kansas nonmetro area against Kansas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Kansas nonmetro area earns $35,790–$42,960. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $46,590, 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 $7,170 wide, against $8,940 across Kansas and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Kansas nonmetro area 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 $4,810 over the median, the 25th only $2,360 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $6,206 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 the Kansas nonmetro area, and the Kansas statewide median of $43,020 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Kansas 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 $11,076 to the $38,150 median and brings it to $49,226 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 Kansas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($38,290) and customer support specialists ($36,820). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,010.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area (-16.9%), between office managers (-13.1%) and customer support specialists (-17.8%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in the Kansas nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Kansas nonmetro area, 4.1% across Kansas and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kansas

Across the 5 areas of Kansas with data for this job, the median runs from $37,910 in Manhattan to $44,820 in Topeka, a gap of $6,910 a year. The one area in Kansas with more medical administrative assistants, Wichita, KS ($39,530), also pays more.

the Kansas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Kansas nonmetro area is #121 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Kansas, Sierra Vista-Douglas and Waco pay just above the Kansas nonmetro area and Watertown-Fort Drum and Jackson just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Kansas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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