Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area earns $44,910–$51,090. The top tenth earns $62,030 or more, 1.7 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $6,180 wide, against $9,470 across Colorado and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $3,110 a year in pay and about $4,013 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $3,070 in pay. 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 Northwest Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $46,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Colorado 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 $13,930 to the $47,980 median and brings it to $61,910 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 Northwest Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($49,260) and customer support specialists ($47,760). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,970.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area (+4.5%), between office managers (+5.3%) and bookkeepers (+3.7%). The typical role here is at +3.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area, 3.7% across Colorado and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $44,140 in Grand Junction to $49,890 in Boulder, a gap of $5,750 a year. Of the 6 areas in Colorado with more medical administrative assistants than the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area, 5 pay less, the largest of them Denver-Aurora, CO ($47,810), Colorado Springs, CO ($44,680) and Fort Collins-Loveland, CO ($45,190).

the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area is #337 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 Colorado, Bremerton-Silverdale and Fresno pay just above the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area and Eau Claire and Stockton-Lodi just below. All four are within $140 a year of the median in the Northwest Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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