Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Pay in Raleigh-Cary against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Raleigh-Cary earns $38,830–$49,630. The top tenth earns $57,180 or more, 1.5 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($46,080) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $10,800 wide, between the figure for North Carolina ($9,510) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,030 over it, while the 25th sits $7,770 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,910 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 Raleigh-Cary, and the North Carolina statewide median of $44,190 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Raleigh-Cary

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 $13,529 to the $46,600 median and brings it to $60,129 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 Raleigh-Cary

Of the 17 roles we track in Raleigh-Cary, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($47,400) and data entry specialists ($45,620). Project Coordinator is the highest at $102,280.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in Raleigh-Cary (+1.5%), between administrative assistants (+2.0%) and marketing specialists (+0.3%). The typical role here is at -2.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Raleigh-Cary than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.7% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in Raleigh-Cary, 11.0% across North Carolina and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $37,600 in Fayetteville to $46,860 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $9,260 a year. The one area in North Carolina with more medical administrative assistants, Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC ($45,650), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

Raleigh-Cary against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Raleigh-Cary is #27 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside North Carolina, Phoenix-Mesa and Grand Forks pay just above Raleigh-Cary and Wausau and Atlantic City-Hammonton just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in Raleigh-Cary. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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