Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Daphne-Fairhope, AL

Pay in Daphne-Fairhope against Alabama and the US

Medical administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $54,040, 1.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Daphne-Fairhope earns $33,870–$46,030. The mean ($40,070) is 10% 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 $12,160 wide, wider than in Alabama as a whole ($11,190) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Daphne-Fairhope depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,560 over the median, the 25th only $2,600 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,335 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 median and the 75th percentile in Daphne-Fairhope, and the Alabama statewide median of $36,930 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Daphne-Fairhope

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 $10,588 to the $36,470 median and brings it to $47,058 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 Daphne-Fairhope

Of the 16 roles we track in Daphne-Fairhope, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between HR assistants ($37,360) and data entry specialists ($34,860). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,520.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 16 roles we track in Daphne-Fairhope (-20.6%), between office managers (-20.3%) and sales development representatives (-21.1%). The typical role here is at -17.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.6% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in Daphne-Fairhope, 7.7% across Alabama and 6.5% 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 4 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than Daphne-Fairhope, 2 pay less: Mobile, AL ($36,220) and the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690).

Daphne-Fairhope against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Daphne-Fairhope is #205 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, New Orleans-Metairie and Johnson City pay just above Daphne-Fairhope and Lake Charles and McAllen-Edinburg just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Daphne-Fairhope. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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