Medical Administrative Assistant salary in Tuscaloosa, AL

Pay in Tuscaloosa against Alabama and the US

The middle half of medical administrative assistants in Tuscaloosa earns $31,620–$42,020. The top tenth earns $50,900 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 $10,400 wide, against $11,190 across Alabama and $12,010 nationally: employers in Tuscaloosa pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a medical administrative assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $4,600 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $5,800, or about $7,484 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 between the 75th and 90th percentiles in Tuscaloosa, 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 Tuscaloosa

At the $36,220 median, a local hire costs about $46,735 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,515 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 Tuscaloosa

Of the 16 roles we track in Tuscaloosa, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($37,990) and data entry specialists ($32,990). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,380.

Measured against the US median, medical administrative assistants rank #12 of the 16 roles we track in Tuscaloosa (-21.1%), between data entry specialists (-20.2%) and payroll specialists (-21.8%). The typical role here is at -18.1%, so, measured against the US, medical administrative assistants cost less in Tuscaloosa than the area's general pay level would suggest. Medical administrative assistants hold 7.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Tuscaloosa, 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. Of the 6 areas in Alabama with more medical administrative assistants than Tuscaloosa, 2 pay less: the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($34,690) and Dothan, AL ($35,560).

Tuscaloosa against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Tuscaloosa is #238 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, McAllen-Edinburg and Lake Charles pay just above Tuscaloosa and Dalton and Slidell-Mandeville just below. All four are within $180 a year of the median in Tuscaloosa. Of the three markets with about as many medical administrative assistants, all three pay more.

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