Hire a Medical Assistant in Birmingham, AL

You have one front desk and a handful of rooms. An offer copied from a hospital wage in another state will not hold the assistant who can already room and inject. The 75th percentile in Birmingham is about $39.5K.

What to offer

A one-clinician office that posts the national midpoint will lose people to the practice across the parking lot. Use this metro's median for a trainable hire and the 75th when you need someone who can room and inject on the first full day. The table is the local wage data. Do not average it with a hospital wage from another state.

Percentile	Metro	AL	U.S.
25th	$35,220	$32,390	$38,470
Median	$36,770	$36,100	$45,690
75th	$39,530	$38,360	$49,180

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

How hard this is to fill

Hiring difficulty

4.1

Metro employment

3,750

National growth, 2025 to 2035

12.9%

National openings a year

109.7 thousand

For one manager

You have one front desk and a handful of rooms. Hire for the tasks your state actually lets an assistant do, then ask whether this person has done those tasks without a hospital standing behind them. A national certificate is evidence of training. It is not a Washington credential, and it is not a California scope.

On the first morning, see whether they can take a blood pressure that matches yours, label a tube, and tell a patient what the visit is without inventing a diagnosis. That screen is the job, and supervising them is still the clinician's license.

License and training

Most states do not issue a medical assistant license. Employers often want a national certificate anyway, and the state still decides which tasks a clinician may delegate. BLS tells readers to check the state because a few places require a credential, a training program, or both. This page states a rule only where a statute or board page was read. If your state is not listed, call the medical board before you assign an injection or a blood draw.

Sources: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, medical assistants Medical Board of California, medical assistants Florida Statutes section 458.3485, medical assistant N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.4, delegation to certified medical assistants Washington RCW 18.360, medical assistants Washington State Department of Health, medical assistant FAQ AAMA index of state scope pages, used to find the statutes above and not as a substitute for them

Nearby metros

Tuscaloosa, AL · 47 miles
Gadsden, AL · 56 miles
Anniston, AL · 58 miles
Decatur, AL · 73 miles

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Questions

What do medical assistants earn in Birmingham, AL?

In Birmingham, the May 2025 median is about $36.8K, 20% under the U.S. median and within 3 percent of the Alabama median. The 25th and the 75th are on the table. Those are wages of people already employed, not a quote from a training ad.

Who hires medical assistants in Birmingham?

Physician offices are the main workplace, with hospitals and outpatient centers behind them. A solo clinic in Birmingham is hiring against those offices, not against a distant health system.

Can a medical assistant give injections in Alabama?

Only if Alabama allows that delegation and the supervisor meets the rule on the state line. This page writes the rule for the states we could source and tells you to check the board everywhere else. Do not borrow another state's duty list for a clinic in Birmingham.

Is Birmingham going to need more medical assistants?

National employment is projected to change 12.9% from 2025 to 2035, with about 109.7 thousand openings a year, and that line describes the country rather than Birmingham. Read Birmingham from the wage table and from far more of these workers than a typical metro, then compare it with Tuscaloosa, AL.