Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Reading, PA

Pay in Reading against Pennsylvania and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Reading earns $39,630–$51,990. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $51,990, only 1.4 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 $12,360 wide, wider than in Pennsylvania as a whole ($9,510) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Reading depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $5,580 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $6,780, or about $8,748 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 median and the 75th percentile in Reading, and the Pennsylvania statewide median of $44,930 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Reading

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 $13,125 to the $45,210 median and brings it to $58,335 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 Reading

Of the 17 roles we track in Reading, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($45,500) and customer support specialists ($44,500). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,040.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #4 of the 17 roles we track in Reading (-1.6%), between customer support specialists (-0.6%) and bookkeepers (-3.8%). The typical role here is at -4.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Reading, 4.8% across Pennsylvania and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Pennsylvania

Across the 20 areas of Pennsylvania with data for this job, the median runs from $38,230 in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area to $47,120 in Philadelphia-Camden, a gap of $8,890 a year. Of the 8 areas in Pennsylvania with more medical administrative assistants than Reading, 5 pay less, the largest of them Pittsburgh, PA ($44,260), Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA ($44,920) and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA ($44,060).

Reading against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Reading is #234 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Pennsylvania, Kingston and Sioux Falls pay just above Reading and Fort Collins-Loveland and Boise City just below. All four are within $180 a year of the median in Reading. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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