E-commerce Order Specialist salary in Louisville, KY-IN

Pay in Louisville against Kentucky and the US

The middle half of e-commerce order specialists in Louisville earns $35,740–$46,950. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $52,660, only 1.5 times the bottom tenth, against 1.8 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($43,460) 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 $11,210 wide, between the figure for Kentucky ($10,830) and the US figure ($14,650).

What to budget for an e-commerce order specialist here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,370 over it, while the 25th sits $7,840 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,348 more a year with benefits. 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 $46,170 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Louisville, and the Kentucky statewide median of $40,620 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Louisville

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 $12,652 to the $43,580 median and brings it to $56,232 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

Our open e-commerce order 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 4.2 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 5.2 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 Louisville

Of the 17 roles we track in Louisville, this one ranks #14 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($44,430) and data entry specialists ($43,570). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,660.

Measured against the US median, e-commerce order specialists rank #9 of the 17 roles we track in Louisville (-5.6%), between recruiters (-5.3%) and payroll specialists (-6.3%). The typical role here is at -5.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. E-commerce order specialists hold 0.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Louisville, 0.5% across Kentucky and 0.5% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 5 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $38,480 in the West Kentucky nonmetro area to $43,580 in Louisville, a gap of $5,100 a year. No other area in Kentucky has as many e-commerce order specialists, and all 4 others pay less.

Louisville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Louisville is #31 of 278 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 Kentucky, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and Cedar Rapids pay just above Louisville and Port St. Lucie and Hickory-Lenoir just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Louisville. Of the three markets with about as many e-commerce order specialists, all three pay more.

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