Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Rocky Mount, NC

Pay in Rocky Mount against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Rocky Mount earns $35,850–$45,020. The top tenth earns $55,470 or more, 1.7 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 $9,170 wide, against $9,510 across North Carolina and $12,010 nationally: employers in Rocky Mount 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 $3,540 over it, while the 25th sits $5,630 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,568 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Rocky Mount, and the North Carolina statewide median of $44,190 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 Rocky Mount

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 $12,043 to the $41,480 median and brings it to $53,523 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 Rocky Mount

Of the 17 roles we track in Rocky Mount, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($42,840) and e-commerce order specialists ($39,740). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,010.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Rocky Mount (-9.7%), between virtual receptionists (-8.7%) and administrative assistants (-9.9%). The typical role here is at -12.7%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Rocky Mount than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Rocky Mount, 10.9% across North Carolina and 6.1% 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. Of the 17 areas in North Carolina with more medical administrative assistants than Rocky Mount, 10 pay less, the largest of them the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($37,860), Wilmington, NC ($40,040) and the Central North Carolina nonmetro area ($38,140).

Rocky Mount against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Rocky Mount is #342 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Muskegon-Norton Shores and Springfield pay just above Rocky Mount and Flint and Logan just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in Rocky Mount. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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