Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

Pay in Santa Rosa-Petaluma against California and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $80,520, 1.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Santa Rosa-Petaluma earns $48,760–$72,860. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $24,100 wide, wider than in California as a whole ($16,740) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Santa Rosa-Petaluma depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $12,620 a year in pay and about $16,284 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $11,480 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 below the 10th percentile in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, 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 nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Santa Rosa-Petaluma

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 $17,489 to the $60,240 median and brings it to $77,729 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 Santa Rosa-Petaluma

Of the 17 roles we track in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($61,140) and HR assistants ($57,820). Project Coordinator is the highest at $107,340.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Santa Rosa-Petaluma (+31.2%); sales development representatives come last (-4.4%). The typical role here is at +15.7%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Santa Rosa-Petaluma than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Santa Rosa-Petaluma, 6.9% across California and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

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 11 areas in California with more medical administrative assistants than Santa Rosa-Petaluma, 9 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).

Santa Rosa-Petaluma against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Santa Rosa-Petaluma is #139 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, Seattle-Tacoma pay just above Santa Rosa-Petaluma and Longview-Kelso and Bellingham just below. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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