Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area

Pay in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area against Alabama and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area earns $30,720–$37,890. The top tenth earns $45,860 or more, 1.6 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 $7,170 wide, against $11,190 across Alabama and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $3,970 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $3,200, or about $4,129 once benefits are added. 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 above the 90th percentile in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area, 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 nine in ten local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area

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 $10,071 to the $34,690 median and brings it to $44,761 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 the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between HR assistants ($34,840) and data entry specialists ($33,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,730.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #11 of the 16 roles we track in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area (-24.5%), between office managers (-24.1%) and payroll specialists (-24.5%). The typical role here is at -22.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 10.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area, 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. All 2 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area also pay more, among them Huntsville, AL ($37,680) and Mobile, AL ($36,220).

the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area is #142 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, Hattiesburg and Valdosta pay just above the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area and Alexandria just below. All four are within $290 a year of the median in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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