Turnover Cost: Medical Assistants, Mississippi (2025)
Verified cost of employee turnover for the selected Medical Assistants population in Mississippi, United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-may).
Medical Assistants · Mississippi, United States
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $36,240 for Medical Assistants in Mississippi, 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 Mississippi, United States
Annual mean wage — the input to the estimate above, compared directly rather than as a derived range. See all 33 industries.
What this means
In Mississippi, Medical Assistants earn an annual mean wage of $36,240 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Applying the SHRM replacement-cost guideline (50% to 200% of salary) to that figure produces an estimated cost range of $18,100 to $72,500. The actual cost in your workplace depends on how quickly you can find and train a replacement, and the workload that falls to other staff during a vacancy.
Estimated cost of turnover: Medical Assistants vs regional average
| Measure | Medical Assistants | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Estimated cost of turnover | $36,240 | $66,966 |