Medical Assistant Salary And How It Varies From Organization To Organization

Medical assistants are required for various tasks in health care centers. The medical assistant salary depends upon the nature of work, experience, time committed and the type of the job. The medical assistant career is increasingly becoming popular among the youth because of the lucrative offers and benefits.

A medical assistant may be licensed or unlicensed multi-skilled professional to help the doctors, nurses, physician's assistants in their work. They are required in nursing homes, health care centers, hospitals, private clinics, laboratories and other places. Their multi task performance includes administrative work, clerical work and technical support work. They can provide service in front office as well as back office. Its a versatile career with good pay packages.

Medical assistants are required for smooth functioning of the office or hospital. They basically work under the department administrator. The department administrator directs the assistants to various duties. The salary of the assistants depends a lot on their work profile and experience. There are options for both full time and part time duty hours. The full time pay scale differs from part time pay scale. In part time assistants are paid on hour basis.

The salaries of medical assistants fluctuate with time. There is no fixed income for most of them. But there are some hospitals, nursing homes and clinics that make better provisions and fixed pay schedule for them with lots of benefits. Today the demand of assistants has made many institutions follow guidelines of labor and payment.

A survey carried out in 2002 by the American Association for Medical Transcription found that the annual salary of a medical transcriptionist was little above $31,000. The highest among them had an earning of $18 per hour and the lowest has $9 per hour. Thus it can estimated that it all depends on the contract based on which you are hired. During the time of your appointment salary negotiation is carried out and decided what the employer would pay you as a salary.

From various surveys its been concluded that a full time medical assistant can earn from $30,000 to $45,000 a year, and a part timer can earn from $15,000 to $20,000 a year. But these figures vary with time and geographic location. A skilled and experienced medical assistant can earn $30.00 per hour in some states.

A normal medical assistant works only 35-45 hours a week. In that case if he earns $25.00 an hour his average salary would be around $3,600 to $4,000 a month. As stated the medical assistant salary scheme varies from organization to organization. But they remain more or less near to the above mentioned figure. American Association of Medical Assistants has also found experienced CMAs earn more than new or average CMAs.