Marketing Specialist salary in the Central Missouri nonmetro area

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

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Central Missouri nonmetro area earns $37,040–$73,050. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $97,840, only 3.1 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($59,000) 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 $36,010 wide, against $52,030 across Missouri and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Central Missouri nonmetro area 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 $23,130 over the median, the 25th only $12,880 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $29,845 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 the Central Missouri nonmetro area, and the Missouri statewide median of $70,140 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 the Central Missouri 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 $14,493 to the $49,920 median and brings it to $64,413 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 Missouri nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Central Missouri nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between office managers ($56,630) and executive assistants ($49,680). Project Coordinator is the highest at $74,080.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in the Central Missouri nonmetro area (-36.6%); HR assistants come first (-6.9%). The typical role here is at -18.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Central Missouri 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 Missouri nonmetro area, 5.3% across Missouri and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Missouri

Across the 12 areas of Missouri with data for this job, the median runs from $40,570 in the Southwest Missouri nonmetro area to $74,130 in St. Louis, a gap of $33,560 a year. All 4 areas in Missouri with more marketing specialists than the Central Missouri nonmetro area also pay more, among them St. Louis, MO-IL ($74,130) and Kansas City, MO-KS ($72,580).

the Central Missouri nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Central Missouri nonmetro area is #214 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 Missouri, Weirton-Steubenville and Charleston pay just above the Central Missouri nonmetro area and Gadsden and Hattiesburg just below. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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