Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lancaster, PA

Pay in Lancaster against Pennsylvania and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lancaster earns $37,980–$47,300. The top tenth earns $55,800 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($44,560) 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 $9,320 wide, against $9,510 across Pennsylvania and $12,010 nationally: employers in Lancaster 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 $1,850 over it, while the 25th sits $7,470 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,387 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 Lancaster, and the Pennsylvania statewide median of $44,930 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Lancaster

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 $13,195 to the $45,450 median and brings it to $58,645 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 Lancaster

Of the 17 roles we track in Lancaster, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($46,270) and customer support specialists ($44,290). Project Coordinator is the highest at $95,820.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Lancaster (-1.0%), between e-commerce order specialists (+1.9%) and customer support specialists (-1.1%). The typical role here is at -5.9%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Lancaster than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Lancaster, 4.8% across Pennsylvania and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Pennsylvania

Across the 20 areas of Pennsylvania with data for this job, the median runs from $38,230 in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area to $47,120 in Philadelphia-Camden, a gap of $8,890 a year. Of the 5 areas in Pennsylvania with more medical administrative assistants than Lancaster, 3 pay less: Pittsburgh, PA ($44,260), Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA ($44,920) and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA ($44,060).

Lancaster against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lancaster is #171 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Pennsylvania, Charlottesville and Twin Falls pay just above Lancaster and Sioux Falls and Kingston just below. All four are within $170 a year of the median in Lancaster. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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