Marketing Specialist salary in Dalton, GA

Pay in Dalton against Georgia and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Dalton earns $54,600–$129,580. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $145,870, only 3.2 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($90,040) 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 $74,980 wide, wider than in Georgia as a whole ($55,820) and the US ($49,960), so what a marketing specialist earns in Dalton depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $50,540 over the median, the 25th only $24,440 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $65,213 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 25th percentile and the median in Dalton, and the Georgia statewide median of $75,850 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Dalton

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 $22,947 to the $79,040 median and brings it to $101,987 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 Dalton

Of the 17 roles we track in Dalton, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($98,590); accountants come next at $77,410.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Dalton (+0.4%); e-commerce order specialists come last (-31.5%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost more in Dalton than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Dalton, 5.4% across Georgia and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 17 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $53,510 in the North Georgia nonmetro area to $79,040 in Dalton, a gap of $25,530 a year. All 10 areas in Georgia with more marketing specialists than Dalton pay less, among them Atlanta-Sandy Springs, GA ($79,030) and Savannah, GA ($70,860).

Dalton against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Dalton is #321 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Georgia, Barnstable Town and Philadelphia-Camden pay just above Dalton and Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Raleigh-Cary just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Dalton. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, none pays as much.

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