Bookkeeper salary in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area

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

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area earns $46,940–$61,660. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $70,430, only 1.7 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 $14,720 wide, against $15,570 across Vermont and $17,950 nationally: employers in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a bookkeeper here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,500 over the median, the 25th only $5,220 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,258 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 25th percentile and the median in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area, and the Vermont statewide median of $54,720 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area

At the $52,160 median, a local hire costs about $67,303 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $15,143 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 Vermont nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($56,690) and e-commerce order specialists ($49,950). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,640.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area (+2.9%), between paralegals (+4.0%) and medical administrative assistants (+2.5%). The typical role here is at +1.1%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Bookkeepers hold 15.5% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area, 12.5% across Vermont and 8.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Vermont

Across the 3 areas of Vermont with data for this job, the median runs from $52,160 in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area to $56,690 in Burlington-South Burlington, a gap of $4,530 a year. The one area in Vermont with more bookkeepers, Burlington-South Burlington, VT ($56,690), also pays more.

the Southern Vermont nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Vermont nonmetro area is #283 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Vermont, Midland and Manchester-Nashua pay just above the Southern Vermont nonmetro area and Reno and Syracuse just below. All four are within $390 a year of the median in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, none pays as much.

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