Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

Pay in Lafayette-West Lafayette against Indiana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lafayette-West Lafayette earns $38,370–$47,010. The top tenth earns $56,880 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($43,720) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,640 wide, against $9,150 across Indiana and $12,010 nationally: employers in Lafayette-West Lafayette 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 $3,170 over it, while the 25th sits $5,470 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,090 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, and the Indiana statewide median of $44,060 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lafayette-West Lafayette

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 $12,728 to the $43,840 median and brings it to $56,568 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette

Of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($46,420) and customer support specialists ($41,090). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,330.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette (-4.6%), between bookkeepers (-4.5%) and data entry specialists (-5.7%). The typical role here is at -8.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Lafayette-West Lafayette than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lafayette-West Lafayette, 8.0% across Indiana and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $38,220 in Evansville to $46,030 in Indianapolis-Carmel, a gap of $7,810 a year. Of the 10 areas in Indiana with more medical administrative assistants than Lafayette-West Lafayette, 8 pay less, the largest of them the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,930), Evansville, IN ($38,220) and South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI ($42,580).

Lafayette-West Lafayette against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lafayette-West Lafayette is #325 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Jacksonville and Chambersburg pay just above Lafayette-West Lafayette and Abilene and Tampa-St. Petersburg just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Lafayette-West Lafayette. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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