Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area

Pay in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area against New Hampshire and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area earns $45,510–$52,290. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $60,320, 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 only $6,780 wide, against $8,450 across New Hampshire and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $3,060 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $3,720, or about $4,800 once benefits are added. 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 25th percentile and the median in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $48,410 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northern New Hampshire 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 $14,101 to the $48,570 median and brings it to $62,671 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 Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($48,720) and data entry specialists ($45,140). Project Coordinator is the highest at $87,150.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area (+5.7%), between data entry specialists (+9.2%) and payroll specialists (+3.3%). The typical role here is at -5.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, 4.9% across New Hampshire and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Hampshire

Across the 4 areas of New Hampshire with data for this job, the median runs from $46,810 in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area to $48,570 in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area, a gap of $1,760 a year. The one area in New Hampshire with more medical administrative assistants, Manchester-Nashua, NH ($48,410), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area is #216 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside New Hampshire, New Haven and Minot pay just above the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area and Milwaukee-Waukesha and Eugene-Springfield just below. All four are within $310 a year of the median in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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