Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Traverse City, MI

Pay in Traverse City against Michigan and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Traverse City earns $38,600–$47,890. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $49,560, only 1.3 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 $9,290 wide, between the figure for Michigan ($9,040) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $5,710 over the median, the 25th only $3,580 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $7,368 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 median and the 75th percentile in Traverse City, and the Michigan statewide median of $41,100 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Traverse City

At the $42,180 median, a local hire costs about $54,426 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,246 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 Traverse City

Of the 16 roles we track in Traverse City, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($44,200) and customer support specialists ($42,030). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,720.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #6 of the 16 roles we track in Traverse City (-8.2%), between payroll specialists (-8.1%) and bookkeepers (-8.5%). The typical role here is at -10.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 8.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Traverse City, 6.9% across Michigan and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Michigan

Across the 19 areas of Michigan with data for this job, the median runs from $37,060 in Monroe to $46,740 in Ann Arbor, a gap of $9,680 a year. Of the 10 areas in Michigan with more medical administrative assistants than Traverse City, 7 pay less, the largest of them Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI ($41,180), Flint, MI ($41,430) and Lansing-East Lansing, MI ($41,880).

Traverse City against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Traverse City is #291 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Michigan, Erie and Canton-Massillon pay just above Traverse City and Des Moines-West Des Moines and Columbus just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in Traverse City. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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