Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area

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

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $59,380, 1.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area earns $43,800–$49,540. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $5,740 wide, against $11,190 across Minnesota and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Northwest Minnesota 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 $2,790 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $2,950, or about $3,806 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 Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, and the Minnesota statewide median of $50,030 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Minnesota 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 $13,526 to the $46,590 median and brings it to $60,116 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 Minnesota nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($47,720) and data entry specialists ($41,630). Project Coordinator is the highest at $88,000.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 16 roles we track in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area (+1.4%), between administrative assistants (+2.8%) and data entry specialists (+0.7%). The typical role here is at -1.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area, 5.8% across Minnesota and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Minnesota

Across the 8 areas of Minnesota with data for this job, the median runs from $46,490 in the Southwest Minnesota nonmetro area to $51,870 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, a gap of $5,380 a year. All 2 areas in Minnesota with more medical administrative assistants than the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area also pay more, among them Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI ($51,870) and Duluth, MN-WI ($47,870).

the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area is #224 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Minnesota, Raleigh-Cary and Phoenix-Mesa pay just above the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area and Wausau and Atlantic City-Hammonton just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Northwest Minnesota nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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