E-commerce Order Specialist salary in St. Louis, MO-IL

Pay in St. Louis against Missouri and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $87,200 or more, 2.8 times the bottom tenth, against 1.8 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of e-commerce order specialists in St. Louis earns $34,940–$55,860. The mean ($49,430) is 10% 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 $20,920 wide, against $14,650 nationally, so offers vary more here.

What to budget for an e-commerce order specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $10,770 a year in pay and about $13,897 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $10,150 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 $46,170 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in St. Louis.

What a hire really costs in St. Louis

At the $45,090 median, a local hire costs about $58,181 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,091 here. 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 4.4 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 5.4 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 St. Louis

Of the 17 roles we track in St. Louis, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between medical administrative assistants ($45,620) and data entry specialists ($39,130). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,510.

Measured against the US median, e-commerce order specialists rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in St. Louis (-2.3%), between project coordinators (-1.8%) and administrative assistants (-2.8%). The typical role here is at -2.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. E-commerce order specialists hold 0.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in St. Louis, 0.3% across Missouri and 0.5% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Missouri

Across the 4 areas of Missouri with data for this job, the median runs from $40,220 in the Central Missouri nonmetro area to $47,710 in Kansas City, a gap of $7,490 a year. No other area in Missouri has as many e-commerce order specialists, and 2 of the other 3 pay less.

St. Louis against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, St. Louis is #33 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 Missouri, Lansing-East Lansing and Champaign-Urbana pay just above St. Louis and Spartanburg and Detroit-Warren just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in St. Louis. Of the three markets with about as many e-commerce order specialists, one pays more.

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