Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL

Pay in Florence-Muscle Shoals against Alabama and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Florence-Muscle Shoals earns $30,650–$39,270. The top tenth earns $48,790 or more, 1.7 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,620 wide, against $11,190 across Alabama and $12,010 nationally: employers in Florence-Muscle Shoals pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $3,800 a year in pay and about $4,903 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $4,820 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 $45,930 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles in Florence-Muscle Shoals, 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 Florence-Muscle Shoals

At the $35,470 median, a local hire costs about $45,768 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,298 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 Florence-Muscle Shoals

Of the 14 roles we track in Florence-Muscle Shoals, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,520) and virtual receptionists ($30,580). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,950.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #9 of the 14 roles we track in Florence-Muscle Shoals (-22.8%), between executive assistants (-22.5%) and payroll specialists (-23.3%). The typical role here is at -21.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 11.6% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Florence-Muscle Shoals, 7.7% across Alabama and 6.2% 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 7 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than Florence-Muscle Shoals, 1 pays less: the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690).

Florence-Muscle Shoals against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Florence-Muscle Shoals is #263 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, Eagle Pass and Fort Smith pay just above Florence-Muscle Shoals and Texarkana and Houma-Bayou Cane just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Florence-Muscle Shoals. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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