Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Manchester-Nashua, NH

Pay in Manchester-Nashua against New Hampshire and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Manchester-Nashua earns $45,800–$52,980. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $58,260, only 1.5 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 $7,180 wide, against $8,450 across New Hampshire and $12,010 nationally: employers in Manchester-Nashua pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $4,570 over the median, the 25th only $2,610 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $5,897 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 25th percentile and the median in Manchester-Nashua, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $48,410 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Manchester-Nashua

At the $48,410 median, a local hire costs about $62,465 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,055 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 Manchester-Nashua

Of the 17 roles we track in Manchester-Nashua, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($49,630) and e-commerce order specialists ($48,230). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,180.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in Manchester-Nashua (+5.4%), between payroll specialists (+6.5%) and HR assistants (+5.4%). The typical role here is at -0.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Manchester-Nashua than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Manchester-Nashua, 4.9% across New Hampshire and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Hampshire

Across the 4 areas of New Hampshire with data for this job, the median runs from $46,810 in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area to $48,570 in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, a gap of $1,760 a year. No other area in New Hampshire has as many medical administrative assistants, and 1 of the other 3 pays less.

Manchester-Nashua against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Manchester-Nashua is #166 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside New Hampshire, Milwaukee-Waukesha and New Haven pay just above Manchester-Nashua and Eugene-Springfield and Madison just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Manchester-Nashua. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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