Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Maryland nonmetro area

Pay in the Maryland nonmetro area against Maryland and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $56,460, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Maryland nonmetro area earns $38,370–$47,960. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,590 wide, against $12,230 across Maryland and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Maryland nonmetro area 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 $3,370 over it, while the 25th sits $6,220 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,348 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 the Maryland nonmetro area, and the Maryland statewide median of $47,850 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Maryland nonmetro area

At the $44,590 median, a local hire costs about $57,535 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,945 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 the Maryland nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Maryland nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between HR assistants ($45,140) and data entry specialists ($38,000). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,490.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in the Maryland nonmetro area (-2.9%), between administrative assistants (-2.5%) and bookkeepers (-3.5%). The typical role here is at -8.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Maryland nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Maryland nonmetro area, 5.6% across Maryland and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Maryland

Across the 5 areas of Maryland with data for this job, the median runs from $41,660 in Hagerstown-Martinsburg to $47,680 in Baltimore-Columbia, a gap of $6,020 a year. The one area in Maryland with more medical administrative assistants, Baltimore-Columbia, MD ($47,680), also pays more.

the Maryland nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Maryland nonmetro area is #237 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Maryland, Charleston-North Charleston and Colorado Springs pay just above the Maryland nonmetro area and Grand Island and Peoria just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Maryland nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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