Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Wildwood-The Villages, FL

Pay in Wildwood-The Villages against Florida and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Wildwood-The Villages earns $36,300–$44,700. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $47,530, only 1.4 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 $8,400 wide, against $9,730 across Florida and $12,010 nationally: employers in Wildwood-The Villages 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 $6,790 over the median, the 25th only $1,610 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $8,761 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 Wildwood-The Villages, and the Florida statewide median of $41,730 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 Wildwood-The Villages

At the $37,910 median, a local hire costs about $48,916 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,006 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 Wildwood-The Villages

Of the 15 roles we track in Wildwood-The Villages, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between data entry specialists ($40,140) and virtual receptionists ($34,940). Project Coordinator is the highest at $92,370.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #14 of the 15 roles we track in Wildwood-The Villages (-17.5%), between payroll specialists (-16.1%) and sales development representatives (-17.9%). The typical role here is at -9.0%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Wildwood-The Villages than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 14.8% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Wildwood-The Villages, 8.3% across Florida and 6.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $36,790 in Homosassa Springs to $45,960 in Gainesville, a gap of $9,170 a year. Of the 20 areas in Florida with more medical administrative assistants than Wildwood-The Villages, 1 pays less: Tallahassee, FL ($37,200).

Wildwood-The Villages against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Wildwood-The Villages is #297 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 Florida, Manhattan and Victoria pay just above Wildwood-The Villages and Tyler and Warner Robins just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Wildwood-The Villages. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, one pays more.

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