Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area

Pay in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area against Missouri and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area earns $34,530–$44,120. The top tenth earns $47,700 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,590 wide, against $11,000 across Missouri and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Southeast Missouri 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 $7,310 over the median, the 25th only $2,280 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $9,432 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area, and the Missouri statewide median of $43,980 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area

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 $10,687 to the $36,810 median and brings it to $47,497 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 the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,150) and virtual receptionists ($33,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,430.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 16 roles we track in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area (-19.9%), between bookkeepers (-17.5%) and recruiters (-20.9%). The typical role here is at -21.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.9% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area, 4.4% across Missouri and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Missouri

Across the 12 areas of Missouri with data for this job, the median runs from $36,810 in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area to $45,620 in St. Louis, a gap of $8,810 a year. All 3 areas in Missouri with more medical administrative assistants than the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area also pay more, among them St. Louis, MO-IL ($45,620) and Kansas City, MO-KS ($45,160).

the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area is #259 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Missouri, Morristown and Jackson pay just above the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area and Kingsport-Bristol and El Paso just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in the Southeast Missouri nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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