Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Tallahassee, FL

Pay in Tallahassee against Florida and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Tallahassee earns $35,020–$42,760. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $45,860, 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 only $7,740 wide, against $9,730 across Florida and $12,010 nationally: employers in Tallahassee 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 $5,560 over the median, the 25th only $2,180 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,174 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 above the 90th percentile in Tallahassee, and the Florida statewide median of $41,730 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Tallahassee

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 $10,800 to the $37,200 median and brings it to $48,000 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 Tallahassee

Of the 16 roles we track in Tallahassee, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,310) and data entry specialists ($35,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,740.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #12 of the 16 roles we track in Tallahassee (-19.0%), between marketing specialists (-17.5%) and project coordinators (-19.1%). The typical role here is at -15.4%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Tallahassee than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Tallahassee, 8.3% across Florida and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $36,790 in Homosassa Springs to $45,960 in Gainesville, a gap of $9,170 a year. All 11 areas in Florida with more medical administrative assistants than Tallahassee also pay more, among them Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL ($45,060) and Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL ($43,770).

Tallahassee against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Tallahassee is #99 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Florida, Lawton and Roanoke pay just above Tallahassee and Laredo and Springfield just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Tallahassee. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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