Marketing Specialist salary in Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL

Pay in Deltona-Daytona Beach against Florida and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Deltona-Daytona Beach earns $51,000–$91,230. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $120,920, only 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($74,350) is 11% 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 $40,230 wide, against $46,950 across Florida and $49,960 nationally: employers in Deltona-Daytona Beach 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 $24,210 over the median, the 25th only $16,020 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $31,239 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 median and the 75th percentile in Deltona-Daytona Beach, and the Florida statewide median of $75,450 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Deltona-Daytona Beach

At the $67,020 median, a local hire costs about $86,477 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $19,457 here. 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 Deltona-Daytona Beach

Of the 17 roles we track in Deltona-Daytona Beach, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($68,880) and executive assistants ($61,140). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,890.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in Deltona-Daytona Beach (-14.9%), between office managers (-12.8%) and customer support specialists (-15.1%). The typical role here is at -11.9%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Deltona-Daytona Beach than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 4.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Deltona-Daytona Beach, 5.2% across Florida and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $59,020 in Sebring to $78,990 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, a gap of $19,970 a year. Of the 8 areas in Florida with more marketing specialists than Deltona-Daytona Beach, 2 pay less: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL ($65,180) and Pensacola-Ferry Pass, FL ($63,400).

Deltona-Daytona Beach against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Deltona-Daytona Beach is #110 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Florida, Lawrence and Houston-Pasadena pay just above Deltona-Daytona Beach and Winchester and Lewiston-Auburn just below. All four are within $350 a year of the median in Deltona-Daytona Beach. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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