Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Lynchburg, VA

Pay in Lynchburg against Virginia and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Lynchburg earns $38,500–$45,880. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,910, 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 $7,380 wide, against $9,220 across Virginia and $12,010 nationally: employers in Lynchburg 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 $2,850 over it, while the 25th sits $4,530 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,677 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Lynchburg, and the Virginia statewide median of $46,180 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Lynchburg

At the $43,030 median, a local hire costs about $55,523 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,493 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 Lynchburg

Of the 17 roles we track in Lynchburg, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($47,060) and administrative assistants ($41,510). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,690.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in Lynchburg (-6.3%), between HR assistants (-5.7%) and bookkeepers (-7.1%). The typical role here is at -10.7%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Lynchburg than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Lynchburg, 6.5% across Virginia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $37,270 in Roanoke to $46,130 in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, a gap of $8,860 a year. Of the 4 areas in Virginia with more medical administrative assistants than Lynchburg, 1 pays less: Roanoke, VA ($37,270).

Lynchburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lynchburg is #230 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, St. George and Ogden pay just above Lynchburg and Bay City and Dayton-Kettering just below. All four are within $300 a year of the median in Lynchburg. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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