Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area

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

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area earns $34,040–$40,870. The top tenth earns $48,250 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 $6,830 wide, against $10,350 across Oklahoma and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area 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 $3,920 a year in pay and about $5,058 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $2,910 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area, and the Oklahoma statewide median of $38,330 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 Oklahoma 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 $10,727 to the $36,950 median and brings it to $47,677 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 Oklahoma nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,360) and data entry specialists ($35,810). Project Coordinator is the highest at $74,390.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area (-19.6%), between bookkeepers (-17.9%) and administrative assistants (-20.4%). The typical role here is at -20.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 6.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area, 4.8% across Oklahoma and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Oklahoma

Across the 8 areas of Oklahoma with data for this job, the median runs from $34,690 in the Southwest Oklahoma nonmetro area to $38,980 in Tulsa, a gap of $4,290 a year. All 2 areas in Oklahoma with more medical administrative assistants than the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area also pay more, among them Oklahoma City, OK ($38,870) and Tulsa, OK ($38,980).

the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area is #176 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 Oklahoma, Longview and Florence pay just above the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area and Elizabethtown and Jackson just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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