While pursuing a career in the field of nursing and health care, it is essential that you should have the complete knowledge about the job position and its related details. But in some of the cases confusion might creep in, and one of the cases is the difference between CNA and CMA. These two are totally different, as CNA (Certified nursing assistant) is only responsible for looking after the patients, whereas a CMA (Certified medical assistant) is responsible for handling the various department in the hospital such as clinical, clerical, administrative and specialist, you can find more about this on dailystrength.org. 

While comparing the salaries of  certified medical assistant and  certified nursing assistant, it was noticed that CMA salary is almost double as that of CNA salary. According to the latest survey it is concluded that the salary of a certified nursing assistant ranges from $12 to $15 per hour and the salary of a certified medical assistant ranges from $18 to $20 per hour. Therefore the yearly salary of a CNA comes in between $25000 to $35000 and that of CMA comes around $30000 to $35000. There is a difference in the salary hike of the CMA and CNA as a certified medical assistant gets a salary hike of 32% to 35% during their salary appraisal, but in the case of certified nursing assistant gets a salary hike of almost 18% to 20% during their salary appraisal. 

A certified medical assistant has to complete 2 years of Associate Degree to apply for the job of a certified medical assistant (learn more here) but a CNA has to only complete 6 months of diploma degree to apply for CNA jobs. This comparison in salary should be known beforehand so that it would be easy for people to apply for these job profiles.