Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area

Pay in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area against South Carolina and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area earns $34,930–$45,240. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,240, only 1.5 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 $10,310 wide, between the figure for South Carolina ($9,750) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,770 over the median, the 25th only $2,540 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $10,026 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 between the 75th and 90th percentiles in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area, and the South Carolina statewide median of $40,170 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 the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area

At the $37,470 median, a local hire costs about $48,348 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,878 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 Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($38,250) and e-commerce order specialists ($35,960). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,840.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area (-18.4%), between recruiters (-17.8%) and project coordinators (-19.0%). The typical role here is at -18.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.8% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area, 6.3% across South Carolina and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in South Carolina

Across the 11 areas of South Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $37,030 in Florence to $44,640 in Charleston-North Charleston, a gap of $7,610 a year. Of the 8 areas in South Carolina with more medical administrative assistants than the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area, 1 pays less: Florence, SC ($37,030).

the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area is #321 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside South Carolina, Weirton-Steubenville and Shreveport-Bossier City pay just above the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area and Gulfport-Biloxi and Clarksville just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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