Marketing Specialist salary in Bakersfield-Delano, CA

Pay in Bakersfield-Delano against California and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Bakersfield-Delano earns $50,780–$91,570. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $125,820, only 3.1 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($78,380) is 12% 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 $40,790 wide, against $69,340 across California and $49,960 nationally: employers in Bakersfield-Delano pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $21,660 a year in pay and about $27,948 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $19,130 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 $78,760 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Bakersfield-Delano, and the California statewide median of $94,700 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles.

What a hire really costs in Bakersfield-Delano

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 $20,296 to the $69,910 median and brings it to $90,206 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 Bakersfield-Delano

Of the 17 roles we track in Bakersfield-Delano, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($71,830) and paralegals ($63,420). Project Coordinator is the highest at $104,580.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Bakersfield-Delano (-11.2%); e-commerce order specialists come first (+9.4%). The typical role here is at +2.2%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Bakersfield-Delano than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Bakersfield-Delano, 7.1% across California and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $60,540 in El Centro to $141,960 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $81,420 a year. Of the 9 areas in California with more marketing specialists than Bakersfield-Delano, 2 pay less: Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ($69,840) and Fresno, CA ($62,880).

Bakersfield-Delano against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bakersfield-Delano is #127 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside California, Pueblo and Utica-Rome pay just above Bakersfield-Delano and Atlantic City-Hammonton and Staunton-Stuarts Draft just below. All four are within $260 a year of the median in Bakersfield-Delano. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, none pays as much.

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