Office Manager salary in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area

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

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $85,450, 2.3 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area earns $43,950–$73,840. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $29,890 wide, wider than in Alabama as a whole ($28,810) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $15,110 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $14,780, or about $19,071 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 $69,500 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, and the Alabama statewide median of $60,360 falls there too.

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 $17,146 to the $59,060 median and brings it to $76,206 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 #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($59,380) and marketing specialists ($52,390). Accountant is the highest at $71,420.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #4 of the 13 roles we track in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area (-15.0%), between bookkeepers (-14.9%) and administrative assistants (-17.1%). The typical role here is at -21.5%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost more in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 11.4% of the jobs in these 13 roles in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, 9.5% across Alabama and 9.9% 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 $52,750 in the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area to $64,170 in Birmingham, a gap of $11,420 a year. Of the 9 areas in Alabama with more office managers than the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them Mobile, AL ($57,760), the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($52,750) and Daphne-Fairhope, AL ($55,360).

the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area is #361 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Alabama, Hilton Head Island-Bluffton and Rocky Mount pay just above the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area and Springfield and Killeen-Temple just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Northwest Alabama nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, one pays more.

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