Marketing Specialist salary in Asheville, NC

Pay in Asheville against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Asheville earns $53,870–$87,260. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $121,390, only 2.8 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($75,540) is 18% 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 only $33,390 wide, against $51,380 across North Carolina and $49,960 nationally: employers in Asheville pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $23,500 over the median, the 25th only $9,890 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,323 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 $78,760 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Asheville, and the North Carolina statewide median of $78,410 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Asheville

At the $63,760 median, a local hire costs about $82,271 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,511 here. 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 Asheville

Of the 17 roles we track in Asheville, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($70,210) and office managers ($59,880). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,470.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in Asheville (-19.0%), between sales development representatives (-17.4%) and executive assistants (-22.4%). The typical role here is at -7.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Asheville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 4.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Asheville, 5.9% across North Carolina and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $57,730 in Fayetteville to $93,110 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $35,380 a year. All 6 areas in North Carolina with more marketing specialists than Asheville also pay more, among them Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC ($82,930) and Raleigh-Cary, NC ($78,980).

Asheville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Asheville is #115 of 514 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 North Carolina, Iowa City and Wichita pay just above Asheville and Terre Haute and Grand Junction just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Asheville. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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