Health Care / Administration Programs and Jobs in Huntsville Alabama

Healthcare managers can find many career and educational opportunities in Huntsville, Alabama. For healthcare managers, there are 2,310 jobs in Alabama and this is projected to grow by 21 percent to 3,570 jobs by 2016. With the national projections showing a rise of just 16 percent over the next 10 years, the prospects in Alabama are better relative to the nation as a whole. In general, healthcare managers plan, direct, or coordinate medicine and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations.

Huntsville, Alabama photo by Anivron

State figures show that healthcare managers in Alabama earn $39 per hour or $82,690 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $42 hourly or $88,750 per year on average.

Huntsville is located in Madison County, Alabama. Since 2000, its population has grown to 158,216, a rise of 11 percent.

If you're looking for something to do in Huntsville you need to visit the Bridge Street Town Centre, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Burritt on the Mountain. If you're hungry in Huntsville, you need to take a trip to Phil Sandoval's Mexican Restaurante, Poboy Factory and Pauli's Bar and Grill. But if you're hankering to try something else, too, you should sample Big Ed's Pizza and 801 Franklin for American food.

Living in Huntsville costs less relative to the national average. The cost of living index, a measure of the change in prices of products and services, is 82.5, under the national average of 100. In addition, new home prices are relatively low compared to the national average.

There are many employment opportunities in Huntsville. The most popular positions for women in Huntsville are in the fields of health care, educational services and food services while for men, the top industries are technical services, public administration and construction.

People in Huntsville do not spend a lot of time in their cars getting to and from work with an average daily commute time in Huntsville is far less than a half hour.

In Huntsville, a large amount of the population graduated from high school, about one-third of the population has earned a bachelor's degree and about a tenth possess a graduate degree.

Joblessness is lower relative to the state in Huntsville with an unemployment rate of 7.6 and a state level of 10.1.

More than half of the residents of Huntsville are affiliated with a religious congregation, with the most common being Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist and Catholic. Huntsville is home to the Whitesburg Church of God, the Whitesburg Church and the Maple Grove Church.