Medical Administrative Assistant salary in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA

Pay in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles against California and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $71,680, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles earns $46,660–$59,430. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,770 wide, between the figure for California ($16,740) 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 $4,690 over it, while the 25th sits $8,080 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $6,052 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 10th and 25th percentiles in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, and the California statewide median of $54,490 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles

At the $54,740 median, a local hire costs about $70,632 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $15,892 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles

Of the 17 roles we track in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($57,130) and administrative assistants ($51,010). Project Coordinator is the highest at $108,730.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles (+19.2%), between paralegals (+19.6%) and virtual receptionists (+18.1%). The typical role here is at +6.3%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, 6.9% across California and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $45,820 in El Centro to $69,350 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $23,530 a year. Of the 16 areas in California with more medical administrative assistants than San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, 11 pay less, the largest of them Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA ($51,410), San Diego-Chula Vista, CA ($51,650) and Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ($49,820).

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles is #201 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 California, Bellingham and Longview-Kelso pay just above San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles and Portland-Vancouver and Olympia-Lacey just below. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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