Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Saginaw, MI

Pay in Saginaw against Michigan and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Saginaw earns $36,690–$43,430. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $45,710, only 1.3 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 only $6,740 wide, against $9,040 across Michigan and $12,010 nationally: employers in Saginaw pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $2,860 a year in pay and about $3,690 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $3,880 in pay. 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 above the 90th percentile in Saginaw, and the Michigan statewide median of $41,100 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Saginaw

At the $40,570 median, a local hire costs about $52,348 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,778 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 Saginaw

Of the 17 roles we track in Saginaw, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($42,550) and customer support specialists ($36,150). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,960.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in Saginaw (-11.7%), between office managers (-10.9%) and executive assistants (-11.8%). The typical role here is at -10.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Saginaw, 6.9% across Michigan and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Michigan

Across the 19 areas of Michigan with data for this job, the median runs from $37,060 in Monroe to $46,740 in Ann Arbor, a gap of $9,680 a year. Of the 9 areas in Michigan with more medical administrative assistants than Saginaw, 3 pay less: the Mid Michigan nonmetro area ($39,520), the Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetro area ($38,300) and the Northern Michigan nonmetro area ($39,080).

Saginaw against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Saginaw is #252 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Michigan, Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Prescott Valley-Prescott pay just above Saginaw and Casper and Muncie just below. All four are within $330 a year of the median in Saginaw. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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