Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lima, OH

Pay in Lima against Ohio and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lima earns $38,180–$47,220. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,450, only 1.3 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 $9,040 wide, against $9,280 across Ohio and $12,010 nationally: employers in Lima pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $8,130 over the median, the 25th only $910 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $10,490 a year in employer cost. 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 Lima, and the Ohio statewide median of $44,280 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lima

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 $11,349 to the $39,090 median and brings it to $50,439 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

We place executive assistants, customer support and e-commerce staff today; for medical administrative assistants we answer within one business day whether we can help. Enter the monthly pay you have in mind to compare it with a local hire. The fee field shows our standard fee³; Deel's contractor plan is the default payroll tool⁴.

Other roles in Lima

Of the 16 roles we track in Lima, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($42,340) and data entry specialists ($36,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,670.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 16 roles we track in Lima (-14.9%), between accountants (-12.8%) and recruiters (-16.4%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.1% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lima, 5.7% across Ohio and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $37,650 in Mansfield to $46,220 in Columbus, a gap of $8,570 a year. Of the 12 areas in Ohio with more medical administrative assistants than Lima, 4 pay less, the largest of them the West Northwestern Ohio nonmetro area ($38,130), Youngstown-Warren, OH ($38,440) and the Southern Ohio nonmetro area ($38,940).

Lima against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lima is #340 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Fayetteville-Springdale and Farmington pay just above Lima and St. Joseph and Tulsa just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Lima. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

Questions

Sources

How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.