Marketing Specialist salary in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area against Washington and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area earns $56,360–$95,710. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $139,560, only 3.0 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($83,740) is 16% 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 $39,350 wide, against $71,970 across Washington and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Eastern Washington 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 $23,830 over the median, the 25th only $15,520 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,748 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 the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, and the Washington statewide median of $95,120 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Washington 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 $20,868 to the $71,880 median and brings it to $92,748 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 Eastern Washington nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between office managers ($74,710) and executive assistants ($71,760). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,780.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area (-8.7%); payroll specialists come first (+12.2%). The typical role here is at +4.6%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.8% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, 7.2% across Washington and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Washington

Across the 13 areas of Washington with data for this job, the median runs from $62,310 in the Western Washington nonmetro area to $102,170 in Seattle-Tacoma, a gap of $39,860 a year. Of the 7 areas in Washington with more marketing specialists than the Eastern Washington nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA ($70,390), Bellingham, WA ($63,570) and the Western Washington nonmetro area ($62,310).

the Eastern Washington nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Washington nonmetro area is #279 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 Washington, Greenville-Anderson and Charlottesville pay just above the Eastern Washington nonmetro area and Memphis and Modesto just below. All four are within $280 a year of the median in the Eastern Washington nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, none pays as much.

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