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Employment and Earnings
 Medical assistants
hold about 591,300 jobs in the United States. About 59 percent work in
offices of physicians; 15 percent work in public and private hospitals,
including inpatient and outpatient facilities; and 10 percent work in offices
of other health practitioners, such as chiropractors, optometrists, and
podiatrists. Most of the remainder work in other
health care industries such as outpatient care centers and nursing and
residential care facilities.
The earnings of medical assistants vary, depending on their
experience, skill level, and location. Median annual earnings of
wage-and-salary medical assistants are about $31,540. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $22,870, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $45,310. Median annual
wages in the industries employing the largest numbers of medical assistants
are about:
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General medical and surgical hospitals
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$32,620
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Offices of physicians
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31,710
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Outpatient care centers
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33,560
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Offices of other health practitioners
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28,700
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Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
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