Administrative Assistant salary in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area

Pay in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area against Alabama and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $53,800 or more, 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.0 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of administrative assistants in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area earns $30,260–$45,760. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $15,500 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 $8,280 a year in pay and about $10,684 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,220 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area, and the Alabama statewide median of $41,630 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $10,881 to the $37,480 median and brings it to $48,361 a year. 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 the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($40,650) and customer support specialists ($37,330). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,300.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #10 of the 15 roles we track in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area (-21.2%), between accountants (-21.1%) and virtual receptionists (-21.9%). The typical role here is at -21.0%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 25.2% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area, 20.8% across Alabama and 10.9% 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. All 7 areas in Alabama with more administrative assistants than the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area also pay more, among them Birmingham, AL ($44,580) and Huntsville, AL ($46,090).

the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area is #182 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, Cape Girardeau and Texarkana pay just above the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area and Enid and Dalton just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Southeast Alabama nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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