Bookkeeper salary in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area against Indiana and the US

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area earns $37,880–$52,160. The top tenth earns $61,840 or more, 1.9 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 $14,280 wide, against $17,800 across Indiana and $17,950 nationally: employers in the Southern Indiana 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 $6,450 a year in pay and about $8,323 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,830 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 Southern Indiana nonmetro area, and the Indiana statewide median of $47,820 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area

At the $45,710 median, a local hire costs about $58,981 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,271 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 Southern Indiana nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between HR assistants ($45,760) and paralegals ($45,320). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,990.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area (-9.8%), between HR assistants (-9.6%) and virtual receptionists (-10.5%). The typical role here is at -14.5%, so, measured against the US, bookkeepers cost more in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Bookkeepers hold 14.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area, 11.2% across Indiana and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $44,650 in Muncie to $49,190 in Elkhart-Goshen, a gap of $4,540 a year. All 3 areas in Indiana with more bookkeepers than the Southern Indiana nonmetro area also pay more, among them Indianapolis-Carmel, IN ($48,750) and Fort Wayne, IN ($47,770).

the Southern Indiana nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Indiana nonmetro area is #147 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Wilmington and Springfield pay just above the Southern Indiana nonmetro area and Goldsboro and Kingsport-Bristol just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, all three pay more.

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