Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA

Pay in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre against Pennsylvania and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $54,440, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre earns $38,120–$46,710. The mean ($43,370) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,590 wide, against $9,510 across Pennsylvania and $12,010 nationally: employers in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre 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 $2,650 over it, while the 25th sits $5,940 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,419 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 median and the 75th percentile in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and the Pennsylvania statewide median of $44,930 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

At the $44,060 median, a local hire costs about $56,852 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,792 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 Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

Of the 17 roles we track in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($44,260) and e-commerce order specialists ($43,630). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,820.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (-4.1%), between HR assistants (-3.1%) and e-commerce order specialists (-5.5%). The typical role here is at -10.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, 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. All 4 areas in Pennsylvania with more medical administrative assistants than Scranton-Wilkes-Barre also pay more, among them Philadelphia-Camden, PA-NJ ($47,120) and Pittsburgh, PA ($44,260).

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre is #168 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Pennsylvania, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake and Grand Junction pay just above Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and Lawrence and Yuma just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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