Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area against Maine and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area earns $43,940–$50,070. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $58,620, only 1.5 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 $6,130 wide, between the figure for Maine ($6,030) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $3,180 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $2,950, or about $3,806 once benefits are added. 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 25th percentile and the median in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area, and the Maine statewide median of $46,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area

At the $47,120 median, a local hire costs about $60,800 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,680 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 Southwest Maine nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($47,260) and HR assistants ($45,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,320.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #3 of the 16 roles we track in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area (+2.6%), between customer support specialists (+9.1%) and administrative assistants (+0.5%). The typical role here is at -5.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.2% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area, 8.4% across Maine and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maine

Across the 5 areas of Maine with data for this job, the median runs from $44,080 in the Northeast Maine nonmetro area to $47,720 in Lewiston-Auburn, a gap of $3,640 a year. The one area in Maine with more medical administrative assistants, Portland-South Portland, ME ($47,200), also pays more.

the Southwest Maine nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Maine nonmetro area is #199 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Maine, Philadelphia-Camden and Fond du Lac pay just above the Southwest Maine nonmetro area and Flagstaff and Anchorage just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Southwest Maine nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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