Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Olympia-Lacey, WA

Pay in Olympia-Lacey against Washington and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Olympia-Lacey earns $47,910–$58,340. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $68,270, 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 $10,430 wide, against $14,330 across Washington and $12,010 nationally: employers in Olympia-Lacey 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 $5,440 a year in pay and about $7,019 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $4,990 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 10th and 25th percentiles in Olympia-Lacey, and the Washington statewide median of $58,100 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Olympia-Lacey

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 $15,358 to the $52,900 median and brings it to $68,258 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 Olympia-Lacey

Of the 17 roles we track in Olympia-Lacey, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($54,320) and HR assistants ($52,230). Project Coordinator is the highest at $103,000.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Olympia-Lacey (+15.2%), between data entry specialists (+25.0%) and administrative assistants (+14.3%). The typical role here is at +12.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 2.4% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in Olympia-Lacey, 3.2% across Washington and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Washington

Across the 13 areas of Washington with data for this job, the median runs from $46,810 in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee to $60,350 in Seattle-Tacoma, a gap of $13,540 a year. Of the 5 areas in Washington with more medical administrative assistants than Olympia-Lacey, 4 pay less, the largest of them Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA ($49,200), the Western Washington nonmetro area ($50,450) and Kennewick-Richland, WA ($50,780).

Olympia-Lacey against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Olympia-Lacey is #386 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, but its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Washington, Portland-Vancouver and San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles pay just above Olympia-Lacey and Kahului-Wailuku and Barnstable Town just below. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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