Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the South Florida nonmetro area

Pay in the South Florida nonmetro area against Florida and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the South Florida nonmetro area earns $37,560–$47,040. The top tenth earns $58,480 or more, 1.7 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($44,480) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,480 wide, against $9,730 across Florida and $12,010 nationally: employers in the South Florida nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $6,260 over the median, the 25th only $3,220 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,077 a year in employer cost. 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 the South Florida nonmetro area, and the Florida statewide median of $41,730 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the South Florida nonmetro area

At the $40,780 median, a local hire costs about $52,619 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,839 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 the South Florida nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($42,090) and virtual receptionists ($37,550). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,170.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area (-11.2%), between office managers (-10.5%) and sales development representatives (-11.2%). The typical role here is at -11.2%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.0% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the South Florida nonmetro area, 8.3% across Florida and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $36,790 in Homosassa Springs to $45,960 in Gainesville, a gap of $9,170 a year. Of the 20 areas in Florida with more medical administrative assistants than the South Florida nonmetro area, 12 pay less, the largest of them Orlando-Kissimmee, FL ($39,520), Palm Bay-Melbourne, FL ($40,390) and Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL ($39,520).

the South Florida nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the South Florida nonmetro area is #298 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Prescott Valley-Prescott and College Station-Bryan pay just above the South Florida nonmetro area and Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Saginaw just below. All four are within $210 a year of the median in the South Florida nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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