Highest Paying Cities for Medical Assistants in WI

Let us now consider another key factorial – which cities in the state pay the best wages to MAs? Both the hourly and annual wage averages across top-paying cities in WI are tabled below:

Source: BLS (as of March 31, 2020)

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area employed a major chunk of all WI medical assistants (17,500), followed by Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI (6,740).

Benefits for Wisconsin Medical Assistants other than Salaries

With your base pay, add-on perks should be considered while estimating how much medical assistants make in Wisconsin. These additional benefits over and above your base wages include:

• Healthcare

  Healthcare benefits form a major chunk of your total add-on perks (worth $6,371, i.e., 11.9% of your compensation amount).

• Time Off

  This benefit includes comp offs and paid vacations (worth $4,549, i.e., 8.5% of the total compensation figure). Again, essential for rejuvenating from the strenuous work conditions of the healthcare space.

• Social Security

  Social security perks are also rendered to WI medical assistants, worth $2,742, i.e., 5.1% of your total compensation amount.

• 401K/403B

  These retirement perks are rendered depending on whether you’re employed at a for-profit center or a non-profit center. It includes perks worth $1,756, i.e., 3.3% of the total compensation.

• Pension

  Pension benefits amount to $1,505, i.e., 2.8% of the total payment.

• Disability

  For qualifying MAs, these add-on benefits amount to $573, i.e., 1.1% of the total compensation amount.

  On adding on all these perks (32.8% of total salary) with the base salary ($35,801, i.e., 67.1% of total compensation amount), and the bonus ($37, i.e., 0.1% of total compensation amount), the final pay package is determined as $53,334 for medical assistants in Wisconsin.

  Source: salary.com (as of December 28, 2020)

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

Source: Projections Central (2018-2028 report)

Thus, from 12,100 jobs in 2018 to 14,070 positions in 2028, a 16.3% growth is estimated for MAs in the state. It is a significant number, to say the least, and much higher than the growth estimate for all occupations together in the US.

Hiring Trends

• Medical assisting ranks at #33 on the 50 fastest-growing careers in WI list with 11,530 jobs in 2016 and 13,790 jobs estimated by 2026. The profession enjoys a rather promising 20% increase in demand.
• On CareerOneStop’s list of WI Careers with the most openings, the MA occupation ranks #55 (amongst the top 100 careers with most annual job vacancies). With 11,530 jobs in 2016, the projected new yearly openings are at 1,560.
• Zippia’s taken out their list for the 100 best healthcare companies to work for in Wisconsin. The top 5 in WI for MAs are Aspirus, ThedaCare, Marshfield Clinic, Promega, and UW Health.
• The WI Government’s, Dept of Workforce outlines the Job outlook for MAs in WI through 2026, estimating the growth of 19.6%. The average salary for experienced medical assistants was determined as $40,366.