Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area

Pay in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area against Maine and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area earns $39,090–$47,150. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $51,680, 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 $8,060 wide, between the figure for Maine ($6,030) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,070 over it, while the 25th sits $4,990 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,961 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 Northeast Maine nonmetro area, and the Maine statewide median of $46,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area

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 $12,797 to the $44,080 median and brings it to $56,877 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 the Northeast Maine nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($47,050) and customer support specialists ($42,290). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,060.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 14 roles we track in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area (-4.0%), between paralegals (-3.3%) and accountants (-5.0%). The typical role here is at -5.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.1% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area, 8.6% across Maine and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maine

Across the 5 areas of Maine with data for this job, the median runs from $44,080 in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area to $47,720 in Lewiston-Auburn, a gap of $3,640 a year. All 3 areas in Maine with more medical administrative assistants than the Northeast Maine nonmetro area also pay more, among them Portland-South Portland, ME ($47,200) and the Southwest Maine nonmetro area ($47,120).

the Northeast Maine nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northeast Maine nonmetro area is #356 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Maine, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake and Grand Junction pay just above the Northeast Maine nonmetro area and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and Lawrence just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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