Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Louisville, KY-IN

Pay in Louisville against Kentucky and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Louisville earns $37,750–$47,010. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $53,450, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($43,260) 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 $9,260 wide, against $10,010 across Kentucky and $12,010 nationally: employers in Louisville 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 $2,580 over it, while the 25th sits $6,680 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,329 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 Louisville, and the Kentucky statewide median of $38,750 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Louisville

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 $12,899 to the $44,430 median and brings it to $57,329 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 Louisville

Of the 17 roles we track in Louisville, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($47,090) and e-commerce order specialists ($43,580). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,660.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Louisville (-3.3%), between office managers (-2.9%) and HR assistants (-3.4%). The typical role here is at -5.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Louisville, 13.3% across Kentucky and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 10 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $35,300 in the East Kentucky nonmetro area to $44,450 in Lexington-Fayette, a gap of $9,150 a year. No other area in Kentucky has as many medical administrative assistants, and 8 of the other 9 pay less.

Louisville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Louisville is #24 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Kentucky, Greensboro-High Point and Peoria pay just above Louisville and Staunton-Stuarts Draft and Rochester just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Louisville. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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