Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the West Tennessee nonmetro area

Pay in the West Tennessee nonmetro area against Tennessee and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $50,240, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the West Tennessee nonmetro area earns $34,750–$44,440. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,690 wide, against $10,410 across Tennessee and $12,010 nationally: employers in the West Tennessee 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 $6,960 over the median, the 25th only $2,730 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,981 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 Tennessee nonmetro area, and the Tennessee statewide median of $39,940 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 Tennessee nonmetro area

At the $37,480 median, a local hire costs about $48,361 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,881 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 the West Tennessee nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the West Tennessee nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,580) and data entry specialists ($35,380). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,580.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in the West Tennessee nonmetro area (-18.4%), between e-commerce order specialists (-16.6%) and project coordinators (-24.2%). The typical role here is at -16.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 13.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the West Tennessee nonmetro area, 11.5% across Tennessee and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $36,230 in the East Tennessee nonmetro area to $45,570 in Nashville-Murfreesboro, a gap of $9,340 a year. Of the 8 areas in Tennessee with more medical administrative assistants than the West Tennessee nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area ($37,230), Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA ($36,800) and Johnson City, TN ($36,570).

the West Tennessee nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the West Tennessee nonmetro area is #136 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 Tennessee, Weirton-Steubenville and Shreveport-Bossier City pay just above the West Tennessee nonmetro area and Gulfport-Biloxi and Cape Girardeau just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in the West Tennessee nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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