Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Madison, WI

Pay in Madison against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Madison earns $48,380–$52,670. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $58,190, 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 $4,290 wide, against $5,410 across Wisconsin and $12,010 nationally: employers in Madison pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $0 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $4,290, or about $5,535 once benefits are added. 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Madison, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $48,380 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Madison

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 $14,046 to the $48,380 median and brings it to $62,426 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 Madison

Of the 17 roles we track in Madison, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between HR assistants ($50,810) and customer support specialists ($47,500). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,990.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 17 roles we track in Madison (+5.3%), between customer support specialists (+6.1%) and bookkeepers (+5.1%). The typical role here is at +0.4%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Madison than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Madison, 2.8% across Wisconsin and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $46,190 in Janesville-Beloit to $48,560 in Milwaukee-Waukesha, a gap of $2,370 a year. The one area in Wisconsin with more medical administrative assistants, Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($48,560), also pays more.

Madison against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Madison is #82 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Wisconsin, Eugene-Springfield and Manchester-Nashua pay just above Madison and Washington-Arlington and Walla Walla just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in Madison. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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