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Medical Admin Assistants
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Job Numbers and Growth
There are about 408,000 jobs for people working as medical admin assistants. People pursuing jobs in this occupation should expect a low overall unemployment rate.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Government survey data shows that 19% of employees work fewer than 40 hours per week. Some 1% of medical admin assistants work primarily as a consultant.
Training and Education
Having moderate-term on-the-job training may make it easier to find a job. Employees with a bachelor's degree or higher are 18% of the total. About 49% of medical admin assistants have some college education, but do not have a degree. High school was all the education required by 33% of workers to get a job. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
Cities with few jobs per capita for employees are Lynchburg (Virginia), Blacksburg (Virginia), and Houma (Louisiana). The most jobs are found in Lewiston (Maine), Corvallis (Oregon), and Columbia (Missouri).
Within the US, the highest salaries for medical admin assistants are found in Burlington (Vermont), Fort Collins (Colorado), and Bridgeport (Connecticut), and the lowest are found in McAllen (Texas), Alexandria (Louisiana), and Wichita Falls (Texas).
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Medical Admin Assistants: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Medical Admin Assistants, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Medical Admin Assistants are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Medical Admin Assistants are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Anniston 90 $25,080 0.6 Alabama Auburn 50 $23,710 0.4 Alabama Birmingham 650 $28,450 0.4 Alabama Decatur 80 $26,370 0.5 Alabama Dothan 110 $26,430 0.6 Alabama Florence 190 $24,710 1.2 Alabama Gadsden 90 $25,960 0.9 Alabama Huntsville 200 $24,920 0.3 Alabama Mobile 220 $24,940 0.4 Alabama Montgomery 250 $28,600 0.4 Alabama Tuscaloosa 200 $24,260 0.7 Alaska Anchorage 570 $32,250 1.1 Arizona Flagstaff 150 $27,080 0.9 Arizona Kingman 260 $28,220 1.7 Arizona Phoenix 5,420 $31,010 0.8 Arizona Prescott 190 $27,290 1 Arizona Tucson 1,420 $28,800 1.1 Arizona Yuma 70 $26,360 0.4 Arkansas Fayetteville 350 $24,470 0.5 Arkansas Fort Smith 220 $25,480 0.6 Arkansas Hot Springs 210 1.9 Arkansas Jonesboro 180 $24,560 1.2 Arkansas Little Rock 940 0.8 Arkansas Pine Bluff 130 $26,200 1.3 California Bakersfield 1,560 $27,320 1.7 California Chico 770 $26,540 3.5California El Centro 320 $23,650 2.1California Fresno 1,910 $29,330 1.7 California Hanford 260 $27,460 3.1California Madera 270 $31,520 2.5California Merced 330 $25,410 1.9 California Modesto 1,250 $27,000 2.3California Napa 480 $36,850 2.4California Oakland 5,740 $36,460 1.6 California Oxnard 2,190 $30,620 2.2California Redding 480 $27,350 2.3California Riverside 6,470 $29,770 1.4 California Sacramento 5,960 $32,710 1.9 California Salinas 1,030 $34,380 2California San Diego 8,080 $31,110 1.7 California San Francisco 5,160 $37,790 1.5 California San Jose 4,740 $35,650 1.5 California San Luis Obispo 660 $32,320 2.1California Santa Ana 10,150 $31,340 1.9 California Santa Barbara 1,180 $30,630 2.1California Santa Cruz 620 $32,570 2.2California Santa Rosa 1,550 $36,940 2.5California Stockton 1,480 $28,930 2.1California Vallejo 760 $35,850 1.9 California Visalia 960 $25,660 2.2California Yuba City 310 $28,230 2.7Colorado Boulder 280 $30,000 0.5 Colorado Colorado Springs 960 $30,600 1.1 Colorado Denver 2,830 $34,020 0.6 Colorado Fort Collins 330 $38,700 0.8 Colorado Grand Junction 250 $33,320 1.4 Colorado Greeley 190 $31,600 0.8 Colorado Pueblo 230 $25,460 1.4 Connecticut Bridgeport 660 $38,350 0.4 Connecticut Danbury 200 $33,200 0.9 Connecticut Hartford 1,430 $35,740 0.7 Connecticut New Haven 740 $35,000 0.8 Connecticut Norwich 350 $34,470 0.9 Connecticut Waterbury 210 $37,880 1 Delaware Dover 450 $26,540 2.7Delaware Wilmington 1,830 $33,710 1.6 District of Columbia Washington 4,040 $35,840 0.5 Florida Cape Coral 680 $29,630 1 Florida Deltona 540 $25,750 1 Florida Fort Lauderdale 2,910 $28,600 1.1 Florida Fort Walton Beach 70 $26,330 0.3 Florida Gainesville 300 $25,170 0.8 Florida Jacksonville 1,080 $28,860 0.5 Florida Lakeland 680 $26,290 1 Florida Miami 3,290 $27,120 1 Florida Naples 530 $31,610 1.3 Florida Ocala 310 $24,690 1 Florida Orlando 1,990 $27,120 0.5 Florida Palm Bay 920 $26,020 1.4 Florida Panama City 160 $27,200 0.7 Florida Pensacola 420 $24,430 0.8 Florida Port St Lucie 430 $29,820 1 Florida Sarasota 820 $29,430 0.9 Florida Sebastian 220 $33,150 1.5 Florida Tallahassee 410 $27,210 0.8 Florida Tampa 3,500 $28,810 0.8 Florida West Palm Beach 1,610 $29,880 0.9 Georgia Albany 440 $22,950 2.3Georgia Athens 390 $29,040 1.6 Georgia Atlanta 5,560 $31,180 0.7 Georgia Augusta 680 $28,930 1 Georgia Brunswick 120 $25,100 0.9 Georgia Columbus 290 $27,640 0.8 Georgia Dalton 120 $27,710 0.5 Georgia Gainesville 270 $30,510 1.2 Georgia Macon 560 $24,480 1.7 Georgia Rome 180 $28,390 1.7 Georgia Savannah 450 $29,780 0.9 Georgia Valdosta 230 $29,180 1.3 Georgia Warner Robins 220 $27,030 1.5 Hawaii Honolulu 960 $32,700 0.6 Idaho Boise 630 $30,960 0.7 Idaho Coeur Dalene 200 $28,270 1.2 Idaho Idaho Falls 120 $26,760 0.8 Idaho Lewiston 210 $28,230 3.3Idaho Pocatello 40 $23,770 0.5 Illinois Bloomington 190 $31,200 0.9 Illinois Champaign 280 $26,470 0.9 Illinois Chicago 9,260 $36,600 0.7 Illinois Danville 90 $25,620 1.2 Illinois Decatur 110 $32,310 0.8 Illinois Kankakee 80 $30,250 0.7 Illinois Peoria 590 $28,640 1 Illinois Rockford 430 $31,670 0.9 Indiana Anderson 140 $28,380 1.2 Indiana Bloomington 200 $30,410 0.9 Indiana Columbus 120 $28,670 0.9 Indiana Elkhart 220 $28,240 0.5 Indiana Evansville 540 $27,050 0.9 Indiana Fort Wayne 840 $29,530 1.2 Indiana Gary 810 $29,130 0.9 Indiana Indianapolis 2,260 $30,450 0.7 Indiana Kokomo 120 $29,560 1.2 Indiana Lafayette 220 $26,360 0.9 Indiana Michigan City 220 $29,710 1.7 Indiana Muncie 200 $27,620 1.5 Indiana South Bend 440 $28,610 1 Indiana Terre Haute 390 $28,490 1.8 Iowa Ames 70 $26,860 0.6 Iowa Cedar Rapids 280 $27,020 0.6 Iowa Davenport 550 $29,190 0.9 Iowa Des Moines 810 $30,280 0.7 Iowa Dubuque 110 $29,450 0.7 Iowa Iowa City 460 $34,980 2Iowa Sioux City 240 $29,060 1.1 Iowa Waterloo 220 $25,820 0.8 Kansas Lawrence 60 $28,460 0.4 Kansas Topeka 340 $26,170 0.9 Kansas Wichita 600 $26,250 0.6 Kentucky Bowling Green 170 $23,430 1 Kentucky Elizabethtown 170 $24,490 1.3 Kentucky Lexington 860 $28,030 1 Kentucky Louisville 1,660 $28,610 0.8 Kentucky Owensboro 90 $27,240 0.6 Louisiana Alexandria 320 $21,280 1.7 Louisiana Baton Rouge 480 $28,020 0.4 Louisiana Houma 30 $21,180 0.1 Louisiana Lafayette 150 $24,120 0.3 Louisiana Lake Charles 130 $22,760 0.5 Louisiana Monroe 80 $26,860 0.3 Louisiana New Orleans 840 $28,130 0.5 Louisiana Shreveport 220 $25,880 0.4 Maine Bangor 410 $29,030 2.1Maine Lewiston 580 $25,940 3.9Maine Portland 1,290 $31,920 1.9 Maryland Baltimore 5,270 $33,510 1.2 Maryland Bethesda 2,160 $33,790 1.1 Maryland Cumberland 150 $28,250 1.4 Maryland Hagerstown 440 $27,600 1.4 Maryland Salisbury 280 $28,110 1.8 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 770 $38,020 2.4Massachusetts Boston 9,670 $36,350 1.6 Massachusetts Brockton 730 $36,140 2.6Massachusetts Framingham 850 $33,370 1.6 Massachusetts Haverhill 500 $33,040 2.1Massachusetts Lawrence 570 $33,660 3.2Massachusetts Leominster 390 $33,650 2.6Massachusetts Lowell 360 $33,540 0.9 Massachusetts New Bedford 380 $30,870 1.9 Massachusetts Pittsfield 220 $30,510 2.3Massachusetts Springfield 1,490 $33,620 1.5 Massachusetts Taunton 160 $35,540 1.1 Massachusetts Worcester 1,940 $35,660 2.3Michigan Ann Arbor 390 $32,780 0.7 Michigan Battle Creek 90 $33,810 0.6 Michigan Bay City 110 $28,500 1.1 Michigan Detroit 1,540 $30,110 0.6 Michigan Flint 590 $30,770 1.3 Michigan Grand Rapids 830 $31,670 0.6 Michigan Kalamazoo 150 $30,980 0.3 Michigan Lansing 530 $31,780 0.8 Michigan Monroe 40 $28,340 0.3 Michigan Muskegon 130 $26,160 0.7 Michigan Niles 130 $34,540 0.7 Michigan Saginaw 460 $30,570 1.9 Michigan Warren 2,330 $32,000 0.6 Minnesota Duluth 280 $32,030 0.7 Minnesota Minneapolis 4,210 $34,830 0.7 Minnesota St Cloud 260 $33,280 0.8 Mississippi Gulfport 190 $25,360 0.5 Mississippi Hattiesburg 60 $23,240 0.3 Mississippi Jackson 320 $27,650 0.4 Mississippi Pascagoula 100 $24,560 0.7 Missouri Columbia 950 $28,010 3.7Missouri Jefferson City 290 $26,460 1.4 Missouri Joplin 480 $24,250 1.9 Missouri Kansas City 5,040 $30,030 1.4 Missouri Springfield 1,100 $26,410 1.7 Missouri St Joseph 360 $25,210 2.4Missouri St Louis 8,800 $29,270 1.9 Montana Billings 210 $30,310 0.8 Montana Great Falls 160 $27,430 1.6 Montana Missoula 170 $30,090 1.1 Nebraska Lincoln 630 $27,830 1.2 Nebraska Omaha 1,450 $29,800 0.9 Nevada Las Vegas 1,170 $34,070 0.4 Nevada Reno 330 $36,640 0.5 New Hampshire Manchester 360 $33,320 1.1 New Hampshire Nashua 390 $34,390 0.9 New Hampshire Portsmouth 240 $37,110 1.4 New Hampshire Rochester 200 $32,810 1.1 New Jersey Atlantic City 570 $33,260 1.2 New Jersey Camden 2,930 $36,320 1.6 New Jersey Edison 5,270 $35,220 1.5 New Jersey Newark 6,070 $36,520 1.7 New Jersey Ocean City 100 $33,690 0.8 New Jersey Trenton 1,020 $33,830 1.4 New Jersey Vineland 320 $32,660 1.8 New Mexico Albuquerque 510 $30,030 0.4 New Mexico Farmington 110 $30,440 0.7 New Mexico Las Cruces 160 $24,230 0.8 New Mexico Santa Fe 190 $29,960 1 New York Albany 570 $28,880 0.4 New York Binghamton 160 $24,100 0.5 New York Buffalo 810 $29,720 0.4 New York Glens Falls 180 $27,490 1.1 New York Ithaca 40 $24,610 0.3 New York Kingston 110 $28,340 0.6 New York Nassau 2,140 $36,680 0.5 New York New York 8,590 $37,330 0.5 New York Poughkeepsie 420 $29,080 0.5 New York Rochester 1,000 $27,960 0.6 New York Syracuse 460 $27,770 0.4 New York Utica 120 $27,390 0.3 North Carolina Asheville 450 $27,640 0.8 North Carolina Burlington 90 $26,420 0.5 North Carolina Charlotte 1,800 $29,190 0.6 North Carolina Durham 850 $32,090 0.9 North Carolina Fayetteville 190 $27,200 0.5 North Carolina Goldsboro 140 $28,880 1.3 North Carolina Greensboro 620 $26,850 0.5 North Carolina Greenville 320 $24,700 1.4 North Carolina Hickory 280 $26,130 0.5 North Carolina Jacksonville 130 $23,980 1.1 North Carolina Raleigh 790 $28,550 0.4 North Carolina Rocky Mount 150 $24,450 0.8 North Carolina Wilmington 390 $27,270 0.8 North Carolina Winston Salem 880 $28,400 1.2 North Dakota Bismarck 180 $25,790 1 North Dakota Fargo 200 $27,460 0.5 North Dakota Grand Forks 140 $27,610 1 Ohio Akron 2,030 $28,630 1.8 Ohio Canton 1,040 $26,590 1.8 Ohio Cincinnati 4,780 $29,980 1.3 Ohio Cleveland 6,740 $29,790 1.8 Ohio Columbus 4,880 $29,460 1.5 Ohio Dayton 2,650 $28,060 2 Ohio Lima 460 $25,330 2.9Ohio Mansfield 380 $26,300 2.4Ohio Sandusky 240 $25,900 2.3Ohio Springfield 350 $25,960 2.5Ohio Toledo 2,030 $29,360 1.9 Ohio Youngstown 2,050 $24,320 2.6Oklahoma Lawton 110 $21,690 1 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1,670 $25,870 0.9 Oklahoma Tulsa 1,010 $26,550 0.7 Oregon Bend 510 $31,520 2.4Oregon Corvallis 330 $32,230 3.7Oregon Eugene 850 $33,820 1.7 Oregon Medford 660 $28,970 2.5Oregon Portland 5,000 $34,820 1.4 Oregon Salem 770 $30,030 1.5 Pennsylvania Allentown 1,600 $29,150 1.4 Pennsylvania Altoona 310 $26,770 1.7 Pennsylvania Erie 500 $26,900 1.2 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 1,370 $27,610 1.3 Pennsylvania Johnstown 200 $24,550 1.2 Pennsylvania Lancaster 900 $28,220 1.1 Pennsylvania Lebanon 120 $25,100 0.9 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 5,800 $33,030 0.9 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 4,550 $26,470 1.1 Pennsylvania Reading 430 $27,780 0.8 Pennsylvania Scranton 790 $26,840 0.9 Pennsylvania State College 90 $27,400 0.5 Pennsylvania Williamsport 160 $23,840 1 Pennsylvania York 680 $28,880 1.1 Rhode Island Providence 3,430 $32,810 1.7 South Carolina Anderson 100 $26,610 0.5 South Carolina Charleston 990 $31,990 1 South Carolina Columbia 570 $27,290 0.5 South Carolina Florence 600 $24,850 2.3South Carolina Greenville 870 $27,670 0.8 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 280 $27,040 0.7 South Carolina Spartanburg 410 $25,940 1 South Carolina Sumter 70 $23,870 0.7 South Dakota Rapid City 60 $27,370 0.3 South Dakota Sioux Falls 90 $30,930 0.2 Tennessee Chattanooga 620 $30,750 0.8 Tennessee Clarksville 180 $24,100 0.8 Tennessee Cleveland 80 $27,390 0.8 Tennessee Jackson 270 $24,390 1.5 Tennessee Johnson City 270 $23,170 1.2 Tennessee Kingsport 250 $21,930 0.7 Tennessee Knoxville 750 $28,070 0.7 Tennessee Memphis 1,410 $28,070 0.7 Tennessee Morristown 130 $23,200 0.9 Tennessee Nashville 1,140 $30,400 0.4 Texas Abilene 140 $24,000 0.7 Texas Amarillo 220 $27,410 0.7 Texas Austin 1,500 $30,420 0.6 Texas Beaumont 590 $27,330 1.1 Texas Brownsville 330 $24,560 0.8 Texas College Station 220 $27,890 0.9 Texas Corpus Christi 610 $24,570 1 Texas Dallas 5,010 $30,640 0.7 Texas El Paso 560 $23,820 0.6 Texas Fort Worth 2,170 $25,480 0.7 Texas Houston 6,940 $30,550 0.8 Texas Killeen 270 $26,550 0.7 Texas Longview 180 $25,030 0.6 Texas Lubbock 340 $24,390 0.9 Texas Mcallen 870 $22,890 1.2 Texas Midland 140 $25,670 0.7 Texas Odessa 90 $27,600 0.5 Texas San Angelo 70 $23,690 0.6 Texas San Antonio 2,630 $25,410 0.9 Texas Sherman 150 $23,920 1.3 Texas Texarkana 200 $22,910 1.2 Texas Tyler 460 $27,450 1.6 Texas Victoria 240 $30,030 1.7 Texas Waco 140 $26,480 0.5 Texas Wichita Falls 110 $21,840 0.6 Utah Logan 270 $23,400 2 Utah Ogden 1,010 $25,470 1.5 Utah Provo 870 $26,650 1.6 Utah Salt Lake City 3,100 $26,510 1.4 Utah St George 400 $27,270 2.7Vermont Burlington 360 $40,040 1 Virginia Blacksburg 30 $28,330 0.2 Virginia Charlottesville 120 $29,070 0.4 Virginia Danville 90 $30,170 0.9 Virginia Harrisonburg 90 $26,190 0.5 Virginia Lynchburg 60 $31,840 0.2 Virginia Richmond 1,130 $30,320 0.5 Virginia Roanoke 580 $27,610 1.1 Virginia Virginia Beach 980 $30,160 0.4 Virginia Winchester 60 $30,510 0.4 Washington Bellingham 450 $35,140 1.8 Washington Bremerton 640 $34,340 2.4Washington Kennewick 580 $31,740 2Washington Longview 260 $32,240 2.7Washington Mount Vernon 380 $37,250 2.8Washington Olympia 600 $35,820 2Washington Seattle 7,560 $37,540 1.5 Washington Spokane 1,680 $32,210 2.4Washington Tacoma 1,870 $34,490 2Washington Wenatchee 270 $30,970 2.3Washington Yakima 470 $30,660 1.9 West Virginia Huntington 490 $24,320 1.3 West Virginia Parkersburg 210 $24,370 1 West Virginia Weirton 250 $28,770 2West Virginia Wheeling 190 $24,230 1 Wisconsin Appleton 410 $28,300 1.1 Wisconsin Eau Claire 280 $31,070 1.2 Wisconsin Green Bay 430 $31,380 0.8 Wisconsin Janesville 100 $29,580 0.5 Wisconsin La Crosse 130 $32,100 0.6 Wisconsin Madison 580 $31,230 0.5 Wisconsin Milwaukee 2,300 $31,510 0.8 Wisconsin Oshkosh 400 $31,000 1.5 Wisconsin Racine 210 $31,000 0.9 Wisconsin Sheboygan 140 $27,860 0.8 Wisconsin Wausau 100 $31,450 0.5 Wyoming Casper 150 $28,770 1.3 Wyoming Cheyenne 260 $27,310 2
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