Highest Paying Cities for Medical Assistants in WA

If you’ve wondered how much medical assistants make in Washington’s different cities, this top 10 list will answer it according to two popular sources, indeed.com and salary.com.

Source: BLS (as of March 31, 2020)

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue stood first, employing 8,570 medical assistants in Washington, while Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro came second, hiring 7,540. Other areas on the list, like Spokane-Spokane Valley, Kennewick-Richland, and Yakima, stood third, fourth, and fifth, employing a total of 2,940 medical assistants.

Benefits for Washington Medical Assistants other than Salaries

A medical assistant’s base salary in Washington is about $38,746, and adding a bonus of 0.1% ($45), it makes up about 67.8% of their total remuneration, which is $57,204. This is including other benefits of $18,391/year, which make up about 32.2% of their total yearly income.

(Source: salary.com as of November 25, 2020)

• Healthcare

  Working as a medical assistant will enable you to receive one of the best healthcare packages costing about $6,371 a year to your employer. It will comprise a whopping 11.1% of your total compensation for the year.

• Time-Off

  Your time off will make up about 8.6% of your total compensation when its monetary value is considered, which is about $4,924 a year.

• Social Security

  Employers help make social security payments of medical assistants in Washington for about $2,968 a year, making up 5.2% of their total remuneration.

• 401K/403B

  Retirement is not easy, but this fund will help you stay afloat after you stop working, and your employer will contribute to it for about $1,901 a year, which is about 3.3% of your total remuneration.

• Pension

  Another retirement fund that will help you in old age; it receives yearly payments of about $1,629, making up 2.8% of the whole compensation.

• Disability

  To replace one’s income partially in case of permanent disability, this fund is set up and contributed to by employers of medical assistants in Washington yearly. The amount comes to about $621 a year, making up almost 1.1% of the total compensation.

Projected Employment and Hiring Trends for WA Medical Assistants (2018-2028)

Source: U.S. Department of Labor-Sponsored resource, Projections Central (2018-2028 report)

Hiring Trends

• Medical assistants were projected to grow at 25% between 2016 and 2026, making the total number of professionals employed in the state go from 9,780 to 12,260. It puts medical assistance at the 12th spot in the list of fastest-growing jobs in Washington, according to Career One Stop.
• The same source also reported medical assistance to be the 62nd in the list of largest employers in the state, with 13,790 jobs in 2016. It was also noticeable that the list of jobs with the most openings between 2016-2026 featured medical assistance at the 57th spot, projected to create 2,020 jobs every year.
• USA Wage awarded medical assistance the 48th spot in the list of most popular jobs in Washington with 15,780 professionals employed as of March 31, 2020. They earned a yearly average salary of $43,470, making up 0.48% of the state’s total workforce.