Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Kingston, NY

Pay in Kingston against New York and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Kingston earns $40,140–$48,660. The top tenth earns $58,370 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 $8,520 wide, against $12,150 across New York and $12,010 nationally: employers in Kingston pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,380 over it, while the 25th sits $5,140 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,361 more a year with benefits. 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 Kingston, and the New York statewide median of $47,710 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Kingston

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 $13,146 to the $45,280 median and brings it to $58,426 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 Kingston

Of the 16 roles we track in Kingston, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($46,120) and customer support specialists ($43,680). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,770.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 16 roles we track in Kingston (-1.4%), between paralegals (-1.1%) and executive assistants (-2.3%). The typical role here is at -2.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.2% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Kingston, 5.3% across New York and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New York

Across the 15 areas of New York with data for this job, the median runs from $38,140 in Watertown-Fort Drum to $49,230 in New York-Newark, a gap of $11,090 a year. Of the 12 areas in New York with more medical administrative assistants than Kingston, 8 pay less, the largest of them Rochester, NY ($44,380), Albany-Schenectady, NY ($45,140) and Syracuse, NY ($44,870).

Kingston against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Kingston is #405 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside New York, Sioux Falls and Lancaster pay just above Kingston and Reading and Fort Collins-Loveland just below. All four are within $170 a year of the median in Kingston. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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