Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Missoula, MT

Pay in Missoula against Montana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Missoula earns $39,100–$46,950. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,510, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($43,740) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $7,850 wide, against $8,770 across Montana and $12,010 nationally: employers in Missoula 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 $2,640 over it, while the 25th sits $5,210 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,406 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 Missoula, and the Montana statewide median of $43,740 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Missoula

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 $12,864 to the $44,310 median and brings it to $57,174 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 Missoula

Of the 14 roles we track in Missoula, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($44,690) and administrative assistants ($42,500). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,250.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 14 roles we track in Missoula (-3.5%), between customer support specialists (-0.2%) and virtual receptionists (-3.7%). The typical role here is at -11.7%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Missoula than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 12.0% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Missoula, 10.6% across Montana and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Montana

Across the 8 areas of Montana with data for this job, the median runs from $40,200 in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area to $47,500 in Bozeman, a gap of $7,300 a year. All 2 areas in Montana with more medical administrative assistants than Missoula pay less, among them the West Montana nonmetro area ($43,080) and Billings, MT ($43,710).

Missoula against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Missoula is #244 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Montana, Idaho Falls and Rochester pay just above Missoula and Richmond and State College just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Missoula. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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