Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Pittsfield, MA

Pay in Pittsfield against Massachusetts and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Pittsfield earns $45,510–$49,970. The top tenth earns $62,170 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 $4,460 wide, against $11,430 across Massachusetts and $12,010 nationally: employers in Pittsfield pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $1,040 over it, while the 25th sits $3,420 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $1,342 more a year with benefits. 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 Pittsfield, and the Massachusetts statewide median of $50,290 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in Pittsfield

At the $48,930 median, a local hire costs about $63,135 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,205 here. 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 Pittsfield

Of the 15 roles we track in Pittsfield, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($49,990) and data entry specialists ($46,620). Project Coordinator is the highest at $104,640.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 15 roles we track in Pittsfield (+6.5%), between bookkeepers (+9.2%) and administrative assistants (+5.2%). The typical role here is at +2.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Pittsfield than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.1% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Pittsfield, 5.7% across Massachusetts and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Massachusetts

Across the 7 areas of Massachusetts with data for this job, the median runs from $47,290 in Worcester to $51,940 in Barnstable Town, a gap of $4,650 a year. Of the 4 areas in Massachusetts with more medical administrative assistants than Pittsfield, 2 pay less: Worcester, MA ($47,290) and Springfield, MA ($47,780).

Pittsfield against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Pittsfield is #290 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 Massachusetts, Mankato and Trenton-Princeton pay just above Pittsfield and Salem and Minot just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in Pittsfield. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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