Bookkeeper salary in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area

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

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area earns $39,370–$53,270. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $59,330, only 1.8 times the bottom tenth, against 2.1 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $13,900 wide, against $17,810 across Virginia and $17,950 nationally: employers in the Northwest Virginia 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 $6,570 a year in pay and about $8,477 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,330 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 Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, and the Virginia statewide median of $51,620 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area

At the $46,700 median, a local hire costs about $60,258 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,558 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 the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between paralegals ($47,700) and medical administrative assistants ($46,130). Project Coordinator is the highest at $88,120.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #6 of the 15 roles we track in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area (-7.8%), between recruiters (-7.8%) and administrative assistants (-7.9%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so, measured against the US, bookkeepers cost more in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Bookkeepers hold 11.2% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, 7.6% across Virginia and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $45,270 in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area to $52,680 in Charlottesville, a gap of $7,410 a year. Of the 9 areas in Virginia with more bookkeepers than the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Roanoke, VA ($46,420), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($46,590) and the Southside Virginia nonmetro area ($45,810).

the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area is #412 of 521 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Virginia, St. Joseph and Baton Rouge pay just above the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area and Columbia and Evansville just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, all three pay more.

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