Data Entry Specialist salary in Lafayette, LA

Pay in Lafayette against Louisiana and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $49,960 or more, 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 1.9 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of data entry specialists in Lafayette earns $31,820–$47,110. The mean ($39,710) is no higher than the median, so few high earners skew the figures here. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $15,290 wide, wider than in Louisiana as a whole ($8,830) and the US ($12,650), so what a data entry specialist earns in Lafayette depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a data entry specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $6,560 a year in pay and about $8,465 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $8,730 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 $41,340 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Lafayette, and the Louisiana statewide median of $36,920 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Lafayette

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 $11,773 to the $40,550 median and brings it to $52,323 a year. 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 Lafayette

Of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between HR assistants ($44,770) and bookkeepers ($38,910). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,720.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette (-1.9%); marketing specialists come last (-28.1%). The typical role here is at -18.7%, so, measured against the US, data entry specialists cost more in Lafayette than the area's general pay level would suggest. Data entry specialists hold 2.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lafayette, 1.1% across Louisiana and 0.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Louisiana

Across the 8 areas of Louisiana with data for this job, the median runs from $33,310 in Lake Charles to $40,550 in Lafayette, a gap of $7,240 a year. All 2 areas in Louisiana with more data entry specialists than Lafayette pay less, among them Shreveport-Bossier City, LA ($36,920) and New Orleans-Metairie, LA ($34,890).

Lafayette against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lafayette is #70 of 389 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Louisiana, Indianapolis-Carmel and North Port-Bradenton pay just above Lafayette and Durham-Chapel Hill and Traverse City just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Lafayette. Of the three markets with about as many data entry specialists, none pays as much.

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