Customer Support Specialist salary in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area against South Carolina and the US

Customer support specialists at the 90th percentile earn $60,230, 2.2 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of customer support specialists in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area earns $31,980–$46,960. The mean ($40,920) is 9% 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 $14,980 wide, wider than in South Carolina as a whole ($12,150) and the US ($14,910), so what a customer support specialist earns in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a customer support specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,480 over the median, the 25th only $5,500 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $12,232 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 the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area, and the South Carolina statewide median of $38,860 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area

At the $37,480 median, a local hire costs about $48,361 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $10,881 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 3.6 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 4.5 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 the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area

Of the 13 roles we track in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($39,990) and medical administrative assistants ($37,040). Project Coordinator is the highest at $89,650.

Measured against the US median, customer support specialists rank #7 of the 13 roles we track in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area (-16.3%), between sales development representatives (-16.2%) and accountants (-18.7%). The typical role here is at -16.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Customer support specialists hold 17.2% of the jobs in these 13 roles in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area, 20.8% across South Carolina and 16.8% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in South Carolina

Across the 11 areas of South Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $35,540 in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area to $44,000 in Charleston-North Charleston, a gap of $8,460 a year. Of the 10 areas in South Carolina with more customer support specialists than the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them Columbia, SC ($37,430), Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC ($36,510) and Florence, SC ($37,270).

the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area is #397 of 520 US areas for this job. It is a small market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside South Carolina, Elizabethtown and Charleston pay just above the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area and Morgantown and Victoria just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Southern South Carolina nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many customer support specialists, one pays more.

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