Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Huntsville, AL

Pay in Huntsville against Alabama and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $56,690 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 Huntsville earns $34,770–$47,370. The mean ($41,280) 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 $12,600 wide, wider than in Alabama as a whole ($11,190) and the US ($12,010), so what a medical administrative assistant earns in Huntsville 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 $9,690 over the median, the 25th only $2,910 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,503 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 Huntsville, and the Alabama statewide median of $36,930 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

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 $10,939 to the $37,680 median and brings it to $48,619 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 #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($38,400) and virtual receptionists ($35,060). Project Coordinator is the highest at $112,130.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #14 of the 16 roles we track in Huntsville (-18.0%), between customer support specialists (-14.2%) and marketing specialists (-24.8%). The typical role here is at -7.8%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Huntsville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.3% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Huntsville, 7.6% 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. No other area in Alabama has as many medical administrative assistants, and 14 of the other 15 pay less.

Huntsville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Huntsville is #94 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Alabama, Lafayette and Athens-Clarke County pay just above Huntsville and Rome and Brunswick-St. Simons just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Huntsville. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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