Marketing Specialist salary in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

Pay in Brownsville-Harlingen against Texas and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Brownsville-Harlingen earns $38,990–$70,700. The top tenth earns $107,210 or more, 3.7 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 3.6 times. The mean ($58,190) is 23% 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 $31,710 wide, against $46,260 across Texas and $49,960 nationally: employers in Brownsville-Harlingen 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 $23,380 over the median, the 25th only $8,330 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,168 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Brownsville-Harlingen, and the Texas statewide median of $72,520 falls there too. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local marketing specialists earn.

What a hire really costs in Brownsville-Harlingen

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 $13,738 to the $47,320 median and brings it to $61,058 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 Brownsville-Harlingen

Of the 17 roles we track in Brownsville-Harlingen, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($49,010) and paralegals ($45,480). Project Coordinator is the highest at $73,050.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Brownsville-Harlingen (-39.9%); customer support specialists come first (-14.3%). The typical role here is at -24.4%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Brownsville-Harlingen than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 2.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Brownsville-Harlingen, 4.0% across Texas and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 31 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $47,220 in Laredo to $80,460 in Austin-Round Rock, a gap of $33,240 a year. All 14 areas in Texas with more marketing specialists than Brownsville-Harlingen also pay more, among them Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ($75,240) and Houston-Pasadena, TX ($67,370).

Brownsville-Harlingen against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Brownsville-Harlingen is #273 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Dothan and Beckley pay just above Brownsville-Harlingen and Parkersburg-Vienna and Kahului-Wailuku just below. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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