Bookkeeper salary in the South Florida nonmetro area

Pay in the South Florida nonmetro area against Florida and the US

The middle half of bookkeepers in the South Florida nonmetro area earns $42,300–$60,940. The top tenth earns $74,090 or more, 2.1 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.1 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $18,640 wide, wider than in Florida as a whole ($17,070) and the US ($17,950), so what a bookkeeper earns in the South Florida nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a bookkeeper here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $11,420 over the median, the 25th only $7,220 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $14,735 a year in employer cost. 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 South Florida nonmetro area, and the Florida statewide median of $49,330 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in the South Florida 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 $14,377 to the $49,520 median and brings it to $63,897 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 South Florida nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($50,840) and administrative assistants ($44,770). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,170.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #2 of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area (-2.3%), between virtual receptionists (-1.2%) and administrative assistants (-5.8%). The typical role here is at -11.2%, so, measured against the US, bookkeepers cost more in the South Florida nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Bookkeepers hold 11.9% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the South Florida nonmetro area, 7.7% across Florida and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $44,360 in Homosassa Springs to $51,000 in Naples-Marco Island, a gap of $6,640 a year. Of the 17 areas in Florida with more bookkeepers than the South Florida nonmetro area, 11 pay less, the largest of them Orlando-Kissimmee, FL ($48,460), Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL ($48,980) and Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL ($46,860).

the South Florida nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the South Florida nonmetro area is #309 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Salisbury and Cincinnati pay just above the South Florida nonmetro area and Houston-Pasadena and Ogden just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in the South Florida nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, one pays more.

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