Marketing Specialist salary in Huntsville, AL

Pay in Huntsville against Alabama and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Huntsville earns $50,390–$82,780. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $121,240, only 3.1 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($72,650) is 23% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $32,390 wide, against $33,360 across Alabama and $49,960 nationally: employers in Huntsville pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $23,550 over the median, the 25th only $8,840 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,387 a year in employer cost. 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 $78,760 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Huntsville, and the Alabama statewide median of $59,530 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Huntsville

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 $17,196 to the $59,230 median and brings it to $76,426 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 Huntsville

Of the 16 roles we track in Huntsville, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between office managers ($62,950) and payroll specialists ($52,020). Project Coordinator is the highest at $112,130.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 16 roles we track in Huntsville (-24.8%), between medical administrative assistants (-18.0%) and paralegals (-25.9%). The typical role here is at -7.8%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Huntsville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.9% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Huntsville, 3.9% across Alabama and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller 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 $47,790 in Dothan to $62,190 in Birmingham, a gap of $14,400 a year. The one area in Alabama with more marketing specialists, Birmingham, AL ($62,190), also pays more.

Huntsville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Huntsville is #106 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Alabama, Houma-Bayou Cane and Florence pay just above Huntsville and Ogden and Sebring just below. All four are within $210 a year of the median in Huntsville. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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