Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Sioux City, IA-NE

Pay in Sioux City against Iowa and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Sioux City earns $38,180–$46,210. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $48,720, 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 $8,030 wide, against $9,420 across Iowa and $12,010 nationally: employers in Sioux City 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 $4,320 a year in pay and about $5,574 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $3,710 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 between the median and the 75th percentile in Sioux City, and the Iowa statewide median of $40,980 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Sioux City

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 $12,162 to the $41,890 median and brings it to $54,052 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 Sioux City

Of the 15 roles we track in Sioux City, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($44,550) and customer support specialists ($41,010). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,130.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 15 roles we track in Sioux City (-8.8%), between customer support specialists (-8.4%) and paralegals (-10.8%). The typical role here is at -8.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.5% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Sioux City, 7.8% across Iowa and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Iowa

Across the 12 areas of Iowa with data for this job, the median runs from $38,290 in the Southeast Iowa nonmetro area to $50,130 in Iowa City, a gap of $11,840 a year. Of the 11 areas in Iowa with more medical administrative assistants than Sioux City, 9 pay less, the largest of them the Southeast Iowa nonmetro area ($38,290), Davenport-Moline, IA-IL ($39,270) and Cedar Rapids, IA ($38,830).

Sioux City against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Sioux City is #348 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Iowa, Columbia and Provo-Orem pay just above Sioux City and Lansing-East Lansing and Decatur just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Sioux City. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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