Medical Administrative Assistant salary in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area

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

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area earns $30,660–$38,900. The top tenth earns $48,270 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 $8,240 wide, against $11,190 across Alabama and $12,010 nationally: employers in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,850 over it, while the 25th sits $5,390 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $3,677 more a year with benefits. 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 the Northwest 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 three quarters of local medical administrative assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest 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 $10,466 to the $36,050 median and brings it to $46,516 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 Northwest Alabama nonmetro area

Of the 13 roles we track in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($38,180) and virtual receptionists ($30,420). Accountant is the highest at $71,420.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #7 of the 13 roles we track in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area (-21.5%), between virtual receptionists (-20.0%) and recruiters (-21.8%). The typical role here is at -21.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Medical administrative assistants hold 9.5% of the jobs in these 13 roles in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, 7.8% across Alabama and 6.6% 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 9 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, 3 pay less: the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690), Dothan, AL ($35,560) and Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL ($35,470).

the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area is #317 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, Slidell-Mandeville and Dalton pay just above the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area and Hinesville and Monroe just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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