Customer Support Specialist salary in Manchester-Nashua, NH

Pay in Manchester-Nashua against New Hampshire and the US

The middle half of customer support specialists in Manchester-Nashua earns $38,310–$61,570. The top tenth earns $66,280 or more, 1.9 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.0 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $23,260 wide, wider than in New Hampshire as a whole ($20,270) and the US ($14,910), so what a customer support specialist earns in Manchester-Nashua depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a customer support specialist here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $11,320 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $11,940, or about $15,406 once benefits are added. 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 25th percentile and the median in Manchester-Nashua, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $47,300 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Manchester-Nashua

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 $14,409 to the $49,630 median and brings it to $64,039 a year. 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 4.8 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 5.9 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 Manchester-Nashua

Of the 17 roles we track in Manchester-Nashua, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($52,550) and medical administrative assistants ($48,410). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,180.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Manchester-Nashua (+10.9%); project coordinators come last (-11.9%). The typical role here is at -0.0%, so, measured against the US, customer support specialists cost more in Manchester-Nashua than the area's general pay level would suggest. Customer support specialists hold 21.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Manchester-Nashua, 17.1% across New Hampshire and 16.4% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Hampshire

Across the 4 areas of New Hampshire with data for this job, the median runs from $42,440 in the Northern New Hampshire nonmetro area to $49,630 in Manchester-Nashua, a gap of $7,190 a year. No other area in New Hampshire has as many customer support specialists, and all 3 others pay less.

Manchester-Nashua against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Manchester-Nashua is #90 of 520 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside New Hampshire, Kahului-Wailuku and Boston-Cambridge pay just above Manchester-Nashua and Olympia-Lacey and New York-Newark just below. All four are within $290 a year of the median in Manchester-Nashua. Of the three markets with about as many customer support specialists, none pays as much.

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