Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Napa, CA

Pay in Napa against California and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $76,850, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Napa earns $53,040–$76,830. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $23,790 wide, wider than in California as a whole ($16,740) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Napa depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $15,000 over the median, the 25th only $8,790 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $19,355 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 below the 10th percentile in Napa, and the California statewide median of $54,490 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Napa

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 $17,951 to the $61,830 median and brings it to $79,781 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 Napa

Of the 17 roles we track in Napa, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($62,920) and bookkeepers ($61,710). Project Coordinator is the highest at $109,060.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Napa (+34.6%); marketing specialists come last (+3.4%). The typical role here is at +19.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Napa than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Napa, 6.9% across California and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $45,820 in El Centro to $69,350 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $23,530 a year. Of the 21 areas in California with more medical administrative assistants than Napa, 20 pay less, the largest of them Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA ($51,410), San Francisco-Oakland, CA ($61,330) and San Diego-Chula Vista, CA ($51,650).

Napa against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Napa is #303 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. No metro area outside California pays medical administrative assistants more than Napa; the table shows the next highest outside California. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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