HR Assistant salary in Fayetteville-Springdale, AR

Pay in Fayetteville-Springdale against Arkansas and the US

The middle half of HR assistants in Fayetteville-Springdale earns $42,220–$48,300. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $61,300, only 1.6 times the bottom tenth, against 1.8 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $6,080 wide, against $12,470 across Arkansas and $15,770 nationally: employers in Fayetteville-Springdale pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an HR assistant here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $2,110 over it, while the 25th sits $3,970 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $2,723 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 $50,610 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles in Fayetteville-Springdale, and the Arkansas statewide median of $46,190 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local HR assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Fayetteville-Springdale

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 $13,410 to the $46,190 median and brings it to $59,600 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 Fayetteville-Springdale

Of the 17 roles we track in Fayetteville-Springdale, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($46,910) and bookkeepers ($45,830). Marketing Specialist is the highest at $83,000.

Measured against the US median, HR assistants rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Fayetteville-Springdale (-8.7%), between office managers (-8.5%) and data entry specialists (-9.0%). The typical role here is at -12.6%, so, measured against the US, HR assistants cost more in Fayetteville-Springdale than the area's general pay level would suggest. HR assistants hold 1.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Fayetteville-Springdale, 0.7% across Arkansas and 0.6% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arkansas

Across the 4 areas of Arkansas with data for this job, the median runs from $38,030 in the North Arkansas nonmetro area to $47,920 in Little Rock-North Little Rock, a gap of $9,890 a year. No other area in Arkansas has as many HR assistants, and 2 of the other 3 pay less.

Fayetteville-Springdale against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Fayetteville-Springdale is #48 of 382 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 Arkansas, Lincoln and Wichita pay just above Fayetteville-Springdale and Jackson and Kingston just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in Fayetteville-Springdale. Of the three markets with about as many HR assistants, two pay more.

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