Allied Technicial Institute» Medical Assistant Salary Archives – Blog Title http://www.alliedtech.org Join the healthcare team. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Medical Assistant Salary and Job Growth http://www.alliedtech.org/medical-assistant-salary-and-job-growth/174/ http://www.alliedtech.org/medical-assistant-salary-and-job-growth/174/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:38:19 +0000 admin http://alliedtech.org/?p=174 Medical assisting skills are expected to be in high demand, at least through the next decade. This is due to the increasing burden on the United States health care system, due in part to the aging of the


United States population. Older citizens require, on average, more doctor's visits, and this means more clinic visits with a need for medical assistants to help optimize efficiency. As there is a looming doctor shortage in the United States, medical assistants are being used more frequently to ease the work demands on physicians. Increasingly, medical assistants are also becoming office managers and help to optimize the overall running of a given doctor's office. The salary of a medical assistant depends on experience, and also on location, with average salaries being around ten dollars an hour, or about an average of $26,000 a year.
Many medical assistants may decide to further their career in health care and apply for nursing school after having worked as a medical assistant for many years. Additional certifications may allow medical assistants to achieve a modestly higher salary. Such additional certifications include those in medical sonography.