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Medical administrative assistant salary

Open medical administrative assistant jobs post a median of $23.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $21.25–$26: about $48,900 a year full time. Measured from 532 jobs at 142 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$23.50
Median posted /hr
$21–$26
Middle half /hr
$48,900
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$22.08
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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What medical administrative assistants are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 532 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $9.27, the highest $49.31.

Posted on open jobs

$21.25–$26/hr

Middle half of 259 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $23.50. 48% of the 1,102 open medical administrative assistant jobs state an hourly rate.

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Medical administrative assistant pay by employer

What each employer posts for medical administrative assistants, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Mass General Brigham$21.25$17.71–$31.7176
Beth Israel Lahey Health$24.75$17.83–$31.5253
OSF HealthCare$20$18.80–$22.1230
Mount Sinai Health System$29.50$16.50–$3628
UMass Memorial Health$24.50$16.60–$32.2325
Hackensack Meridian Health$20.75$20.64–$21.7325
One Medical$25$19–$28.5021
Washington University in St. Louis$24.50$17.87–$43.5618
Bassett Healthcare Network$17.25$16.98–$21.9616
Atlantic Health$27.75$20.97–$34.648
Brown University Health$24.50$18.13–$36.378
Mayo Clinic$26$21.55–$30.227
Ellis Medicine$21.50$17.46–$25.327
Cedars-Sinai$34.25$26.31–$41.626
Catholic Health (Long Island)$29.75$27.68–$32.445
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center$23.75$20.57–$28.535
Northwell Health$23.50$20–$32.025
RWJBarnabas Health$23$18.25–$27.065
Sentara Health$24.25$19.53–$28.864
GBMC HealthCare$23$17.30–$29.874
Luminis Health$22$18–$35.774
Sanford Health$21.25$16–$284
Stanford Health Care$37.25$33.05–$41.923
Kaiser Permanente$30.75$25.54–$33.573
Providence$27.50$19.17–$29.633
UPMC$25$19.39–$30.253
University Hospital (Newark)$24.75$21.49–$24.703
UnitedHealth Group$24$16–$363
Illinois Bone and Joint Institute$23$18–$253
Tufts Medicine$22.75$18.81–$25.153
Baptist Health South Florida$21.75$19.25–$25.933
Rochester Regional Health$21$17.75–$30.723
Capital Health$19.50$17.50–$30.013
Carilion Clinic$19.50$16.18–$22.653
Seattle Children's$39.25$29.89–$49.312
Hospital for Special Surgery$36.75$36.13–$37.352
Advocate Health$29.50$20.80–$39.852
Endeavor Health$29$22.58–$35.552
AltaMed Health Services$28.50$25–$32.952
Loma Linda University Health$28.25$25–$34.162

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Medical administrative assistant pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$27.50$24.75–$30.75$26.20 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)34
Washington$27$25.50–$30.75$27.93 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Wisconsin$24.50$22–$26$23.26 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Massachusetts$23.75$22.25–$25$24.18 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)169
New York$23.75$21–$29$22.94 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)87
New Jersey$22.75$21.25–$23.75$23.39 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)50
Illinois$22.75$21–$24.50$22.44 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)50
Florida$22.50$18–$23.50$20.06 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
New Hampshire$22.25$21–$23.50$23.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Ohio$22.25$21.25–$23.75$21.29 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Maryland$22$21.25–$23.25$23 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Virginia$21.50$20–$22.50$22.20 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)12

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift medical administrative assistant pay

Where one employer posts both night and other medical administrative assistant jobs in the same state (3 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Beth Israel Lahey Health, MA$22.75 (1)$24.75 (51)
Mount Sinai Health System, NY$33.25 (1)$29.50 (27)
Atlantic Health, NJ$27.75 (2)$27.75 (6)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Medical administrative assistant jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

22 open jobs from 12 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $51,800, the middle half $42,100 to $62,200, from $20,446 to $96,690 posted.

Best-paid open medical administrative assistant jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Medical administrative assistant jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (43-6013)$17.27 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)$18.54 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)$22.08 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)$24.32 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)$29.10 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)961,610 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($23.50) is $1.42 above the BLS median ($22.08 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Medical administrative assistant salary: common questions

How much does a medical administrative assistant make an hour?

Open medical administrative assistant jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $23.50, with the middle half between $21.25–$26 (532 jobs from 142 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $22.08/hr ($45,930 a year) for medical secretaries and administrative assistants in May 2025.

How much does a medical administrative assistant make a year?

At the posted median of $23.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $48,900, and the middle half to $44,200 to $54,100. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 22 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $51,800.

Which states pay medical administrative assistants the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($27.50), Washington ($27) and Wisconsin ($24.50). The lowest: Virginia ($21.50), Maryland ($22) and Ohio ($22.25). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay medical administrative assistants the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Cedars-Sinai ($34.25), Catholic Health (Long Island) ($29.75) and Mount Sinai Health System ($29.50). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift medical administrative assistants earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other medical administrative assistant jobs in the same state (3 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 532 of 1,102 open medical administrative assistant jobs (48%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (SOC 43-6013), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Medical administrative assistant salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/medical-secretary

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