Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lewiston-Auburn, ME

Pay in Lewiston-Auburn against Maine and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $59,330, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lewiston-Auburn earns $41,740–$50,910. The mean ($47,670) 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 $9,170 wide, between the figure for Maine ($6,030) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,190 over it, while the 25th sits $5,980 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,116 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 25th percentile and the median in Lewiston-Auburn, and the Maine statewide median of $46,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lewiston-Auburn

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 $13,854 to the $47,720 median and brings it to $61,574 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 Lewiston-Auburn

Of the 16 roles we track in Lewiston-Auburn, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($48,880) and customer support specialists ($45,790). Project Coordinator is the highest at $102,490.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 16 roles we track in Lewiston-Auburn (+3.9%); recruiters come last (-23.3%). The typical role here is at -1.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Lewiston-Auburn than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.1% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lewiston-Auburn, 8.4% across Maine and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maine

Across the 5 areas of Maine with data for this job, the median runs from $44,080 in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area to $47,720 in Lewiston-Auburn, a gap of $3,640 a year. All 4 areas in Maine with more medical administrative assistants than Lewiston-Auburn pay less, among them Portland-South Portland, ME ($47,200) and the Southwest Maine nonmetro area ($47,120).

Lewiston-Auburn against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lewiston-Auburn is #390 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Maine, Racine-Mount Pleasant and Coeur d'Alene pay just above Lewiston-Auburn and Baltimore-Columbia and Chicago-Naperville just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Lewiston-Auburn. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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