Marketing Specialist salary in the Central Indiana nonmetro area

Pay in the Central Indiana nonmetro area against Indiana and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Central Indiana nonmetro area earns $46,920–$79,400. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $107,160, only 2.8 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($67,770) is 13% 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 $32,480 wide, against $36,970 across Indiana and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Central Indiana nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $19,390 a year in pay and about $25,019 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $13,090 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 the Central Indiana nonmetro area, and the Indiana statewide median of $63,700 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Central Indiana nonmetro area

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 $17,422 to the $60,010 median and brings it to $77,432 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 the Central Indiana nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Central Indiana nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between recruiters ($61,520) and sales development representatives ($59,520). Project Coordinator is the highest at $75,700.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #14 of the 17 roles we track in the Central Indiana nonmetro area (-23.8%), between administrative assistants (-19.8%) and paralegals (-25.0%). The typical role here is at -13.8%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Central Indiana nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 4.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Central Indiana nonmetro area, 5.4% across Indiana and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $54,440 in Muncie to $66,390 in Columbus, a gap of $11,950 a year. Of the 7 areas in Indiana with more marketing specialists than the Central Indiana nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Evansville, IN ($59,770) and the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($59,680).

the Central Indiana nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Central Indiana nonmetro area is #211 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Sandusky and Bowling Green pay just above the Central Indiana nonmetro area and Casper and Flint just below. All four are within $190 a year of the median in the Central Indiana nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, two pay more.

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