Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Topeka, KS

Pay in Topeka against Kansas and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Topeka earns $38,240–$48,710. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $55,070, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($44,420) 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 $10,470 wide, between the figure for Kansas ($8,940) 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 $3,890 over it, while the 25th sits $6,580 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $5,019 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 Topeka, and the Kansas statewide median of $43,020 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Topeka

At the $44,820 median, a local hire costs about $57,832 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,012 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 Topeka

Of the 17 roles we track in Topeka, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($48,350) and customer support specialists ($43,180). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,000.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Topeka (-2.4%), between project coordinators (-2.3%) and customer support specialists (-3.6%). The typical role here is at -8.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Topeka than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Topeka, 4.1% across Kansas and 6.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kansas

Across the 5 areas of Kansas with data for this job, the median runs from $37,910 in Manhattan to $44,820 in Topeka, a gap of $6,910 a year. All 2 areas in Kansas with more medical administrative assistants than Topeka pay less, among them Wichita, KS ($39,530) and the Kansas nonmetro area ($38,150).

Topeka against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Topeka is #304 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Kansas, Kalamazoo-Portage and Syracuse pay just above Topeka and Colorado Springs and Charleston-North Charleston just below. All four are within $180 a year of the median in Topeka. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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