Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Muncie, IN

Pay in Muncie against Indiana and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Muncie earns $36,680–$44,200. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,420, only 1.4 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 $7,520 wide, against $9,150 across Indiana and $12,010 nationally: employers in Muncie pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $3,680 a year in pay and about $4,748 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $3,840 in pay. 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 Muncie, and the Indiana statewide median of $44,060 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Muncie

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 $11,764 to the $40,520 median and brings it to $52,284 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 Muncie

Of the 15 roles we track in Muncie, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($44,650) and customer support specialists ($39,640). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,080.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 15 roles we track in Muncie (-11.8%), between customer support specialists (-11.5%) and bookkeepers (-11.9%). The typical role here is at -18.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Muncie than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.8% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Muncie, 8.0% across Indiana and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $38,220 in Evansville to $46,030 in Indianapolis-Carmel, a gap of $7,810 a year. Of the 11 areas in Indiana with more medical administrative assistants than Muncie, 5 pay less, the largest of them the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,930), Evansville, IN ($38,220) and the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($38,720).

Muncie against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Muncie is #330 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Casper and Saginaw pay just above Muncie and Midland and Palm Bay-Melbourne just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Muncie. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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