Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lincoln, NE

Pay in Lincoln against Nebraska and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $59,190, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lincoln earns $40,930–$48,750. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $7,820 wide, against $8,010 across Nebraska and $12,010 nationally: employers in Lincoln 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 $2,920 over it, while the 25th sits $4,900 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,768 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 Lincoln, and the Nebraska statewide median of $46,100 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lincoln

At the $45,830 median, a local hire costs about $59,135 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,305 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 Lincoln

Of the 17 roles we track in Lincoln, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($46,280) and customer support specialists ($41,430). Executive Assistant is the highest at $65,410.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 17 roles we track in Lincoln (-0.2%), between data entry specialists (+0.1%) and administrative assistants (-0.7%). The typical role here is at -8.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Lincoln than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Lincoln, 4.1% across Nebraska and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Nebraska

Across the 6 areas of Nebraska with data for this job, the median runs from $44,580 in Grand Island to $46,340 in Omaha, a gap of $1,760 a year. The one area in Nebraska with more medical administrative assistants, Omaha, NE-IA ($46,340), also pays more.

Lincoln against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lincoln is #183 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Nebraska, Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie and Cleveland pay just above Lincoln and El Centro and Glens Falls just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Lincoln. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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