Bookkeeper salary in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Pay in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against Oregon and the US

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area earns $41,870–$58,640. The top tenth earns $71,930 or more, 2.0 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.1 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $16,770 wide, against $17,200 across Oregon and $17,950 nationally: employers in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a bookkeeper here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $9,820 a year in pay and about $12,671 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,950 in pay. 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 $50,670 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, and the Oregon statewide median of $54,060 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Coast Oregon 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 $14,174 to the $48,820 median and brings it to $62,994 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 Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, this one ranks #9 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($56,010) and HR assistants ($48,540). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,020.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #6 of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area (-3.7%), between administrative assistants (-1.8%) and payroll specialists (-3.9%). The typical role here is at -4.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Bookkeepers hold 16.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, 11.4% across Oregon and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $46,660 in the Central Oregon nonmetro area to $57,040 in Portland-Vancouver, a gap of $10,380 a year. All 4 areas in Oregon with more bookkeepers than the Coast Oregon nonmetro area also pay more, among them Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA ($57,040) and Salem, OR ($54,420).

the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Coast Oregon nonmetro area is #194 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Oregon, Pueblo and Champaign-Urbana pay just above the Coast Oregon nonmetro area and Indianapolis-Carmel and Reading just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, none pays as much.

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