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Hire a Medical Assistant in Merced, CA
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 75th percentile in Merced is about $46.8K.
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 | CA | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | $36,390 | $46,240 | $38,470 |
| Median | $39,800 | $49,660 | $45,690 |
| 75th | $46,820 | $61,870 | $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
California does not license medical assistants. The Medical Board says they are unlicensed people who do routine technical support in an office or clinic, with the supervisor on the premises, and they may not be used for inpatient care in a general acute hospital. Injections, skin tests, and blood draws wait on the training in the regulations, and starting an IV is off the list.
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
- Modesto, CA · 37 miles
- Fresno, CA · 52 miles
- Stockton, CA · 65 miles
- San Jose, CA · 73 miles
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Questions
What do medical assistants earn in Merced, CA?
In Merced, the May 2025 median is about $39.8K, 13% under the U.S. median and 20% under the California 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 Merced?
Physician offices are the main workplace, with hospitals and outpatient centers behind them. A solo clinic in Merced is hiring against those offices, not against a distant health system.
Can a medical assistant give injections in California?
Only if California 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 Merced.
Is Merced 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 Merced. Read Merced from the wage table and from far more of these workers than a typical metro, then compare it with Modesto, CA.