Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area

Pay in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area against Mississippi and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $56,460 or more, 2.0 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area earns $30,060–$42,480. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,420 wide, wider than in Mississippi as a whole ($11,840) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $5,280 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $7,140, or about $9,213 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 between the 75th and 90th percentiles in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area, and the Mississippi statewide median of $36,290 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. 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 Delta Mississippi 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 $10,260 to the $35,340 median and brings it to $45,600 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 Delta Mississippi nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($35,430) and administrative assistants ($34,270). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,120.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #9 of the 16 roles we track in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area (-23.1%), between accountants (-22.7%) and project coordinators (-24.6%). The typical role here is at -22.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 5.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area and 6.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Mississippi

Across the 7 areas of Mississippi with data for this job, the median runs from $34,690 in Hattiesburg to $37,440 in Gulfport-Biloxi, a gap of $2,750 a year. Of the 4 areas in Mississippi with more medical administrative assistants than the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the Upper East Mississippi nonmetro area ($34,980) and the Lower East Mississippi nonmetro area ($34,950).

the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area is #364 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Mississippi, Texarkana and Florence-Muscle Shoals pay just above the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area and Anniston-Oxford and Houma-Bayou Cane just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in the West Delta Mississippi nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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