Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area

Pay in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area against Illinois and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area earns $36,650–$45,200. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $47,410, 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 only $8,550 wide, against $9,850 across Illinois and $12,010 nationally: employers in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area 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 $6,610 over the median, the 25th only $1,940 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,529 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area, and the Illinois statewide median of $46,670 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area

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 $11,204 to the $38,590 median and brings it to $49,794 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 the West Central Illinois nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($41,150) and data entry specialists ($36,240). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,300.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area (-16.0%), between recruiters (-13.9%) and accountants (-16.2%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area, 4.5% across Illinois and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $37,660 in Kankakee to $47,680 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $10,020 a year. All 3 areas in Illinois with more medical administrative assistants than the West Central Illinois nonmetro area also pay more, among them Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN ($47,680) and Springfield, IL ($43,350).

the West Central Illinois nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the West Central Illinois nonmetro area is #179 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Joplin and Killeen-Temple pay just above the West Central Illinois nonmetro area and Cleveland and Jacksonville just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the West Central Illinois nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, two pay more.

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