Marketing Specialist salary in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Pay in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against Oregon and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area earns $48,170–$78,360. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $107,720, only 2.5 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($70,380) is 14% 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 $30,190 wide, against $47,130 across Oregon and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Coast Oregon 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 $16,620 a year in pay and about $21,445 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $13,570 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 the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, and the Oregon statewide median of $79,150 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 the Coast Oregon 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 $17,925 to the $61,740 median and brings it to $79,665 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 Coast Oregon nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($64,990) and paralegals ($57,230). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,020.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area (-21.6%), between executive assistants (-14.0%) and sales development representatives (-31.3%). The typical role here is at -4.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area, 5.9% across Oregon and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $61,740 in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area to $85,350 in Portland-Vancouver, a gap of $23,610 a year. All 5 areas in Oregon with more marketing specialists than the Coast Oregon nonmetro area also pay more, among them Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA ($85,350) and Eugene-Springfield, OR ($64,520).

the Coast Oregon nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Coast Oregon nonmetro area is #293 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Oregon, Altoona and Lebanon pay just above the Coast Oregon nonmetro area and Fort Wayne and Rapid City just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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