Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Vallejo, CA

Pay in Vallejo against California and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Vallejo earns $49,410–$78,320. The top tenth earns $81,250 or more, 1.7 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $28,910 wide, wider than in California as a whole ($16,740) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Vallejo depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $11,810 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $17,100, or about $22,065 once benefits are added. 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 below the 10th percentile in Vallejo, and the California statewide median of $54,490 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Vallejo

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 $17,774 to the $61,220 median and brings it to $78,994 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 Vallejo

Of the 17 roles we track in Vallejo, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between HR assistants ($61,870) and bookkeepers ($61,180). Project Coordinator is the highest at $106,520.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Vallejo (+33.3%); sales development representatives come last (-11.6%). The typical role here is at +14.4%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost more in Vallejo than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Vallejo, 6.9% across California and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $45,820 in El Centro to $69,350 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $23,530 a year. Of the 13 areas in California with more medical administrative assistants than Vallejo, 11 pay less, the largest of them Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA ($51,410), San Diego-Chula Vista, CA ($51,650) and Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ($49,820).

Vallejo against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Vallejo is #169 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. No metro area outside California pays medical administrative assistants more than Vallejo; the table shows the next highest outside California. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, none pays as much.

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