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Hire a Medical Assistant in Kennewick, WA
A small office that copies a national midpoint spends the month with an empty room. The median fits someone you will still be training. The 75th fits someone who already keeps the morning moving. The nearest metro with its own page for this role is Walla Walla, WA.
What to offer
A one-clinician office that posts the national midpoint will lose people to the practice across the parking lot. Use this metro's median for a trainable hire and the 75th when you need someone who can room and inject on the first full day. The table is the local wage data. Do not average it with a hospital wage from another state.
| Percentile | Metro | WA | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | $47,140 | $49,310 | $38,470 |
| Median | $50,820 | $59,290 | $45,690 |
| 75th | $59,350 | $63,590 | $49,180 |
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
How hard this is to fill
For one manager
You have one front desk and a handful of rooms. Hire for the tasks your state actually lets an assistant do, then ask whether this person has done those tasks without a hospital standing behind them. A national certificate is evidence of training. It is not a Washington credential, and it is not a California scope.
On the first morning, see whether they can take a blood pressure that matches yours, label a tube, and tell a patient what the visit is without inventing a diagnosis. That screen is the job, and supervising them is still the clinician's license.
License and training
Washington requires a Department of Health credential before someone practices as a medical assistant-certified, medical assistant-registered, medical assistant-phlebotomist, or the other titles in RCW 18.360. A certified assistant needs an approved program and an approved exam. A registered assistant is tied to the endorsing employer, has a narrower scope, and cannot perform phlebotomy.
Washington State Department of Health
Sources: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, medical assistants Medical Board of California, medical assistants Florida Statutes section 458.3485, medical assistant N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.4, delegation to certified medical assistants Washington RCW 18.360, medical assistants Washington State Department of Health, medical assistant FAQ AAMA index of state scope pages, used to find the statutes above and not as a substitute for them
Nearby metros
- Walla Walla, WA · 41 miles
- Yakima, WA · 71 miles
- Wenatchee, WA · 101 miles
- Lewiston, ID · 105 miles
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Questions
What do medical assistants earn in Kennewick, WA?
In Kennewick, the May 2025 median is about $50.8K, 11% over the U.S. median and 14% under the Washington median. The 25th and the 75th are on the table. Those are wages of people already employed, not a quote from a training ad.
Who hires medical assistants in Kennewick?
Physician offices are the main workplace, with hospitals and outpatient centers behind them. A solo clinic in Kennewick is hiring against those offices, not against a distant health system.
Can a medical assistant give injections in Washington?
Only if Washington allows that delegation and the supervisor meets the rule on the state line. This page writes the rule for the states we could source and tells you to check the board everywhere else. Do not borrow another state's duty list for a clinic in Kennewick.
Is Kennewick going to need more medical assistants?
National employment is projected to change 12.9% from 2025 to 2035, with about 109.7 thousand openings a year, and that line describes the country rather than Kennewick. Read Kennewick from the wage table and from a deeper bench of these workers than a typical metro, then compare it with Walla Walla, WA.