Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Auburn-Opelika, AL

Pay in Auburn-Opelika against Alabama and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $49,940, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Auburn-Opelika earns $33,700–$45,220. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $11,520 wide, between the figure for Alabama ($11,190) and the US figure ($12,010).

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $8,900 over the median, the 25th only $2,620 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,484 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 $45,930 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles in Auburn-Opelika, and the Alabama statewide median of $36,930 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Auburn-Opelika

At the $36,320 median, a local hire costs about $46,865 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,545 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 Auburn-Opelika

Of the 15 roles we track in Auburn-Opelika, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($40,460) and customer support specialists ($35,810). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,690.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 15 roles we track in Auburn-Opelika (-20.9%), between customer support specialists (-20.0%) and project coordinators (-24.1%). The typical role here is at -17.2%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Auburn-Opelika than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Auburn-Opelika, 7.7% across Alabama and 6.1% 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 $34,670 in Gadsden to $39,150 in Birmingham, a gap of $4,480 a year. Of the 8 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than Auburn-Opelika, 5 pay less, the largest of them Mobile, AL ($36,220), the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690) and Dothan, AL ($35,560).

Auburn-Opelika against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Auburn-Opelika is #308 of 514 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 Lake Charles pay just above Auburn-Opelika and Dalton and Slidell-Mandeville just below. All four are within $190 a year of the median in Auburn-Opelika. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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