Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area

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

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area earns $37,450–$46,730. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $50,410, only 1.4 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($42,670) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $9,280 wide, between the figure for Montana ($8,770) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $3,890 a year in pay and about $5,019 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $5,390 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 the Southwest Montana nonmetro area, and the Montana statewide median of $43,740 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area

At the $42,840 median, a local hire costs about $55,277 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,437 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 Montana nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($44,130) and virtual receptionists ($36,130). Project Coordinator is the highest at $102,060.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #8 of the 14 roles we track in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area (-6.7%), between paralegals (-6.1%) and bookkeepers (-9.7%). The typical role here is at -6.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.4% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area, 10.6% across Montana and 6.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Montana

Across the 8 areas of Montana with data for this job, the median runs from $40,200 in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area to $47,500 in Bozeman, a gap of $7,300 a year. Of the 7 areas in Montana with more medical administrative assistants than the Southwest Montana nonmetro area, 1 pays less: the East-Central Montana nonmetro area ($40,200).

the Southwest Montana nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Montana nonmetro area is #399 of 514 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Montana, Lynchburg and St. George pay just above the Southwest Montana nonmetro area and Bay City and Dayton-Kettering just below. All four are within $310 a year of the median in the Southwest Montana nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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