Customer Support Specialist salary in Charlottesville, VA

Pay in Charlottesville against Virginia and the US

The middle half of customer support specialists in Charlottesville earns $35,590–$49,890. The top tenth earns $62,490 or more, 2.0 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.0 times. The mean ($44,860) is 11% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $14,300 wide, between the figure for Virginia ($14,000) and the US figure ($14,910).

What to budget for a customer support specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,650 over the median, the 25th only $4,650 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,452 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 $44,770 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Charlottesville, and the Virginia statewide median of $42,730 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Charlottesville

At the $40,240 median, a local hire costs about $51,923 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $11,683 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

Our open customer support specialist roles pay $700–$1,000 a month under a direct contract. The one-time fee is $2,500³ with a 180-day replacement; paying through Deel adds $49 a month⁴. Change any number below to match your plan.

A local hire here costs about 3.9 times as much as a remote hire in year one at the midpoint of our range. From year two, when the fee drops out, it is 4.8 times the remote figure of $10,788. About the candidates: most apply through our assessment platform with a written and a spoken English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff interviews every shortlisted candidate live, in English, before you meet them.

Other roles in Charlottesville

Of the 17 roles we track in Charlottesville, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between e-commerce order specialists ($42,500) and data entry specialists ($38,300). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,680.

Measured against the US median, customer support specialists rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in Charlottesville (-10.1%), between office managers (-8.6%) and sales development representatives (-10.3%). The typical role here is at -2.9%, so, measured against the US, customer support specialists cost less in Charlottesville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Customer support specialists hold 10.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Charlottesville, 14.0% across Virginia and 16.4% nationally. The job is a smaller 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 $35,870 in the Northeast Virginia nonmetro area to $45,500 in Roanoke, a gap of $9,630 a year. Of the 5 areas in Virginia with more customer support specialists than Charlottesville, 3 pay less: Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, VA-NC ($38,150), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($37,380) and Lynchburg, VA ($37,670).

Charlottesville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Charlottesville is #303 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, Wildwood-The Villages and Pueblo pay just above Charlottesville and Springfield and Decatur just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Charlottesville. Of the three markets with about as many customer support specialists, one pays more.

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