Turnover Cost: Medical Assistants, Kentucky (2025)

Verified cost of employee turnover for the selected Medical Assistants population in Kentucky, United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-may).

Estimated cost of turnover

Medical Assistants · Kentucky, United States

$20,500 – $81,900estimated range, 2025-may

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $40,940 for Medical Assistants in Kentucky, United States (2025-may), multiplied by the 0.5×–2× cost of replacing an employee reported by SHRM and Gallup. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the wage, not the cost — the range is a planning estimate, and a real figure depends on time-to-fill, ramp-up, and lost productivity.

How Medical Assistants compares in Kentucky, United States

Annual mean wage — the input to the estimate above, compared directly rather than as a derived range. See all 32 industries.

  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
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What this means

The annual mean wage for Medical Assistants in Kentucky is $40,940 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Turnover for this role carries an estimated cost of $20,500 to $81,900, based on Gallup's 50% to 200% replacement multiple applied to annual salary. The actual cost depends on your labor market conditions, hiring pace, and how long it takes a new hire to reach full capacity.

Estimated cost of turnover: Medical Assistants vs regional average

Estimated cost of turnover in Kentucky, United States, 2025-may. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MeasureMedical AssistantsRegional average
Estimated cost of turnover$40,940$74,981

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