SALARY · MEDICAL ASSISTANTS · DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Medical Assistants salary in District of Columbia

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For medical assistants in District of Columbia, BLS put the median at $51,050 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$51,050

$25 per hour at the median · That is $5,360 (11.7 percent) above the national median of $45,690 for this occupation.

$54,890Mean annual salary
$26Mean hourly wage
$2,260People employed in this job in District of Columbia

Salary range

25th: $47,740Median: $51,05075th: $59,850
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$47,740
Median (50th percentile)$51,050
75th percentile$59,850
Mean$54,890

The middle half of workers earned from $47,740 to $59,850 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$43,199 a year
$3,600 a month
Federal tax $3,946 · FICA $3,905

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for District of Columbia is not included, because the full 2026 state table for District of Columbia has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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