Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, VA-NC

Pay in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake against Virginia and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake earns $38,460–$46,450. The top tenth earns $54,460 or more, 1.5 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. The mean ($43,830) 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 only $7,990 wide, against $9,220 across Virginia and $12,010 nationally: employers in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,370 over it, while the 25th sits $5,620 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,058 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 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, and the Virginia statewide median of $46,180 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake

At the $44,080 median, a local hire costs about $56,877 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $12,797 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 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake

Of the 17 roles we track in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($46,320) and e-commerce order specialists ($42,340). Project Coordinator is the highest at $104,920.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake (-4.0%), between bookkeepers (-3.9%) and paralegals (-4.9%). The typical role here is at -6.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, 6.5% across Virginia and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $37,270 in Roanoke to $46,130 in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, a gap of $8,860 a year. No other area in Virginia has as many medical administrative assistants, and 6 of the other 12 pay less.

Virginia Beach-Chesapeake against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake is #42 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Virginia, Grand Junction and Burlington pay just above Virginia Beach-Chesapeake and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and Lawrence just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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