Marketing Specialist salary in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA

Pay in Blacksburg-Christiansburg against Virginia and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Blacksburg-Christiansburg earns $48,290–$78,440. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $112,220, only 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($69,400) is 11% 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 $30,150 wide, against $48,690 across Virginia and $49,960 nationally: employers in Blacksburg-Christiansburg pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $15,650 a year in pay and about $20,194 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $14,500 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, and the Virginia statewide median of $76,980 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local marketing specialists earn.

What a hire really costs in Blacksburg-Christiansburg

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 $18,229 to the $62,790 median and brings it to $81,019 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 Blacksburg-Christiansburg

Of the 16 roles we track in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between executive assistants ($66,690) and office managers ($59,960). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,070.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 16 roles we track in Blacksburg-Christiansburg (-20.3%), between sales development representatives (-20.0%) and e-commerce order specialists (-22.9%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Blacksburg-Christiansburg than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 5.5% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, 6.6% across Virginia and 6.3% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $58,720 in the Northwest Virginia nonmetro area to $81,660 in Richmond, a gap of $22,940 a year. Of the 9 areas in Virginia with more marketing specialists than Blacksburg-Christiansburg, 4 pay less, the largest of them Lynchburg, VA ($60,310), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($61,550) and Harrisonburg, VA ($61,950).

Blacksburg-Christiansburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Blacksburg-Christiansburg is #310 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, Fresno and Knoxville pay just above Blacksburg-Christiansburg and Little Rock-North Little Rock and Kingston just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Blacksburg-Christiansburg. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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