Which pays more, Medical Assistant or Physician?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Medical Assistant vs Physician

Physician pays more: a median of $223,500 against $65,000. There is 2.0× more demand for Physician. Physician is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 7.9%.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Medical Assistant	Physician	Gap
Open postings	20,282	39,626	-19,344
Posted this week	830	1,356
Median salary	$65,000	$223,500	$-158.5k
25th percentile	$51.5k	$177k
75th percentile	$80.5k	$277k
Salary disclosed	3.8%	8.2%
Remote share	3.1%	11.0%	-7.9pp
Median age of posting	44d	43d
Open over 60 days	32.1%	36.4%
Visa sponsorship	12.8%	12.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Medical Assistant

$29k$112k

Physician

$101k$387k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Medical Assistant

just posted44d median90d+

Physician

just posted43d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Medical Assistant — technologies

Kubernetes

72.0%

Node.js

65.8%

GCP

59.6%

dbt

53.4%

Tableau

47.2%

JavaScript

41.0%

Spark

34.8%

Physician — technologies

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

JavaScript

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

Java

34.8%

Medical Assistant — employers

Vantage Logistics

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Pinewood Education

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

Physician — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Rivergate Media

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Healthcare comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.