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Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.
What a medical secretaries and administrative assistant does
Become a medical secretaries and administrative assistant
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good medical secretaries and administrative assistant
- Talking to others.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $24 per hour with an average salary of $49,000 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $21 and $26 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $44,100 and $54,100 per year.
Medical Secretaries And Administrative Assistant job outlook
- There are 8,892 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 1,409 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.