Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area

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

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area earns $37,570–$47,130. The top tenth earns $55,700 or more, 1.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($43,390) 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 $9,560 wide, between the figure for Virginia ($9,220) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,500 over it, while the 25th sits $6,060 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,516 more a year with benefits. 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 Virginia nonmetro area, and the Virginia statewide median of $46,180 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Virginia 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 $12,667 to the $43,630 median and brings it to $56,297 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 Southwest Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($46,320) and administrative assistants ($40,510). Project Coordinator is the highest at $87,870.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area (-5.0%); paralegals come last (-25.8%). The typical role here is at -14.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, 6.5% across Virginia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $37,270 in Roanoke to $46,130 in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, a gap of $8,860 a year. Of the 5 areas in Virginia with more medical administrative assistants than the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Roanoke, VA ($37,270) and Lynchburg, VA ($43,030).

the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area is #240 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, Salisbury and Billings pay just above the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area and Helena and Utica-Rome just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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