Medical assistants often take medical histories and record vital signs of patients. Medical assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners.
For example the median expected annual pay for a typical Retail Sales Staff - Full Time in the United States is $24,575, so 50% of the people who perform the job of Retail Sales Staff - Full Time in the United States are expected to make less than $24,575. Source: HR Reported data as of August 2016.
The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $9.04, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $24.66. The median hourly wage for retail salespersons was $10.47 in May 2015.