Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area

Pay in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area against Mississippi and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $53,040, 1.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area earns $30,170–$43,680. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $13,510 wide, wider than in Mississippi as a whole ($11,840) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $8,730 over the median, the 25th only $4,780 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,265 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area, and the Mississippi statewide median of $36,290 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area

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 $10,147 to the $34,950 median and brings it to $45,097 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 the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($35,280) and data entry specialists ($34,580). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,960.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area (-23.9%), between recruiters (-23.3%) and payroll specialists (-24.3%). The typical role here is at -23.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Mississippi

Across the 7 areas of Mississippi with data for this job, the median runs from $34,690 in Hattiesburg to $37,440 in Gulfport-Biloxi, a gap of $2,750 a year. All 3 areas in Mississippi with more medical administrative assistants than the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area also pay more, among them Jackson, MS ($36,880) and the Upper East Mississippi nonmetro area ($34,980).

the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area is #277 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Mississippi, Valdosta and Houma-Bayou Cane pay just above the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area and Gadsden and Alexandria just below. All four are within $490 a year of the median in the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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