Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area against Pennsylvania and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area earns $36,020–$44,270. The top tenth earns $49,050 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 $8,250 wide, against $9,510 across Pennsylvania and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Southwestern Pennsylvania 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 $6,040 over the median, the 25th only $2,210 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,794 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 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area, and the Pennsylvania statewide median of $44,930 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Southwestern Pennsylvania 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 $11,099 to the $38,230 median and brings it to $49,329 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 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($39,380) and data entry specialists ($37,680). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,870.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area (-16.8%), between sales development representatives (-15.6%) and administrative assistants (-17.2%). The typical role here is at -14.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 4.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area, 4.8% across Pennsylvania and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Pennsylvania

Across the 20 areas of Pennsylvania with data for this job, the median runs from $38,230 in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area to $47,120 in Philadelphia-Camden, a gap of $8,890 a year. All 11 areas in Pennsylvania with more medical administrative assistants than the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area also pay more, among them Philadelphia-Camden, PA-NJ ($47,120) and Pittsburgh, PA ($44,260).

the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area is #307 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 Pennsylvania, Albany and Baton Rouge pay just above the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area and Evansville and Waco just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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