Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the North Arkansas nonmetro area

Pay in the North Arkansas nonmetro area against Arkansas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the North Arkansas nonmetro area earns $34,680–$37,250. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $41,740, only 1.3 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 $2,570 wide, against $7,520 across Arkansas and $12,010 nationally: employers in the North Arkansas nonmetro area 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 $2,270 over the median, the 25th only $300 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $2,929 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 above the 90th percentile in the North Arkansas nonmetro area, and the Arkansas statewide median of $37,000 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the North Arkansas nonmetro area

At the $34,980 median, a local hire costs about $45,135 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,155 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 North Arkansas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the North Arkansas nonmetro area, this one ranks #16 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($35,890) and virtual receptionists ($34,300). Project Coordinator is the highest at $73,220.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in the North Arkansas nonmetro area (-23.8%), between bookkeepers (-22.7%) and administrative assistants (-24.3%). The typical role here is at -24.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the North Arkansas nonmetro area, 2.0% across Arkansas and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arkansas

Across the 9 areas of Arkansas with data for this job, the median runs from $34,980 in the North Arkansas nonmetro area to $39,630 in Little Rock-North Little Rock, a gap of $4,650 a year. All 2 areas in Arkansas with more medical administrative assistants than the North Arkansas nonmetro area also pay more, among them Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR ($39,630) and Fayetteville-Springdale, AR ($39,090).

the North Arkansas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the North Arkansas nonmetro area is #406 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a small market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Arkansas, Valdosta and Houma-Bayou Cane pay just above the North Arkansas nonmetro area and Hattiesburg and Gadsden just below. All four are within $310 a year of the median in the North Arkansas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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