Administrative Assistant salary in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL

Pay in Florence-Muscle Shoals against Alabama and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $56,610, 2.1 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in Florence-Muscle Shoals earns $32,370–$47,840. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $15,470 wide, between the figure for Alabama ($13,540) and the US figure ($19,170).

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $8,990 a year in pay and about $11,600 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,480 in pay. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $47,540 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Florence-Muscle Shoals, and the Alabama statewide median of $41,630 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Florence-Muscle Shoals

At the $38,850 median, a local hire costs about $50,129 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,279 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Florence-Muscle Shoals

Of the 14 roles we track in Florence-Muscle Shoals, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($44,690) and bookkeepers ($38,810). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,950.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #4 of the 14 roles we track in Florence-Muscle Shoals (-18.3%), between office managers (-17.5%) and accountants (-19.2%). The typical role here is at -21.4%, so, measured against the US, administrative assistants cost more in Florence-Muscle Shoals than the area's general pay level would suggest. Administrative assistants hold 22.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Florence-Muscle Shoals, 20.9% across Alabama and 11.0% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alabama

Across the 16 areas of Alabama with data for this job, the median runs from $37,480 in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area to $46,090 in Huntsville, a gap of $8,610 a year. Of the 13 areas in Alabama with more administrative assistants than Florence-Muscle Shoals, 2 pay less: the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area ($37,480) and the Southwest Alabama nonmetro area ($38,120).

Florence-Muscle Shoals against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Florence-Muscle Shoals is #288 of 520 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Alabama, McAllen-Edinburg and Altoona pay just above Florence-Muscle Shoals and Little Rock-North Little Rock and Homosassa Springs just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in Florence-Muscle Shoals. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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