Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Decatur, AL

Pay in Decatur against Alabama and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $52,180 or more, 1.9 times the bottom tenth, against 1.7 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Decatur earns $32,790–$45,850. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $13,060 wide, wider than in Alabama as a whole ($11,190) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Decatur 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 $8,240 over the median, the 25th only $4,820 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $10,632 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 Decatur, and the Alabama statewide median of $36,930 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Decatur

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 $10,919 to the $37,610 median and brings it to $48,529 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 Decatur

Of the 15 roles we track in Decatur, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($41,070) and data entry specialists ($36,160). Project Coordinator is the highest at $106,140.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 15 roles we track in Decatur (-18.1%), between recruiters (-17.0%) and payroll specialists (-19.7%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Decatur than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.1% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Decatur, 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 13 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than Decatur, 12 pay less, the largest of them Mobile, AL ($36,220), the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690) and Montgomery, AL ($36,500).

Decatur against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Decatur is #361 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, Mansfield and Beckley pay just above Decatur and Fayetteville and Huntington-Ashland just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Decatur. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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