Medical Administrative Assistant salary in La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN

Pay in La Crosse-Onalaska against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in La Crosse-Onalaska earns $46,170–$47,840. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $57,360, 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 $1,670 wide, against $5,410 across Wisconsin and $12,010 nationally: employers in La Crosse-Onalaska 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 $360 over it, while the 25th sits $1,310 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $465 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 10th and 25th percentiles in La Crosse-Onalaska, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $48,380 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in La Crosse-Onalaska

At the $47,480 median, a local hire costs about $61,265 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,785 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 La Crosse-Onalaska

Of the 17 roles we track in La Crosse-Onalaska, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($48,450) and administrative assistants ($47,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,990.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in La Crosse-Onalaska (+3.4%), between e-commerce order specialists (+4.9%) and customer support specialists (+2.3%). The typical role here is at -3.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in La Crosse-Onalaska than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in La Crosse-Onalaska, 2.8% across Wisconsin and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $46,190 in Janesville-Beloit to $48,560 in Milwaukee-Waukesha, a gap of $2,370 a year. All 2 areas in Wisconsin with more medical administrative assistants than La Crosse-Onalaska also pay more, among them Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($48,560) and Madison, WI ($48,380).

La Crosse-Onalaska against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, La Crosse-Onalaska is #362 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Wisconsin, Yakima and Bozeman pay just above La Crosse-Onalaska and Hartford-West Hartford and Bakersfield-Delano just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in La Crosse-Onalaska. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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