Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Owensboro, KY

Pay in Owensboro against Kentucky and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Owensboro earns $35,280–$44,810. The top tenth earns $50,030 or more, 1.6 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 $9,530 wide, against $10,010 across Kentucky and $12,010 nationally: employers in Owensboro pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $7,740 over the median, the 25th only $1,790 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,987 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 Owensboro, and the Kentucky statewide median of $38,750 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 Owensboro

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 $10,762 to the $37,070 median and brings it to $47,832 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 Owensboro

Of the 14 roles we track in Owensboro, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($39,360) and virtual receptionists ($31,300). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,320.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 14 roles we track in Owensboro (-19.3%), between recruiters (-17.8%) and project coordinators (-22.5%). The typical role here is at -17.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 12.3% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Owensboro, 13.5% across Kentucky and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 10 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $35,300 in the East Kentucky nonmetro area to $44,450 in Lexington-Fayette, a gap of $9,150 a year. Of the 8 areas in Kentucky with more medical administrative assistants than Owensboro, 4 pay less, the largest of them the South Central Kentucky nonmetro area ($36,690), the Central Kentucky nonmetro area ($36,720) and the East Kentucky nonmetro area ($35,300).

Owensboro against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Owensboro is #296 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 Kentucky, Springfield and Laredo pay just above Owensboro and Monroe and Brownsville-Harlingen just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Owensboro. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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