Marketing Specialist salary in Elkhart-Goshen, IN

Pay in Elkhart-Goshen against Indiana and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Elkhart-Goshen earns $51,290–$87,560. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $118,100, only 3.0 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,310) is 12% 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 $36,270 wide, against $36,970 across Indiana and $49,960 nationally: employers in Elkhart-Goshen 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 $22,320 over the median, the 25th only $13,950 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $28,800 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 Elkhart-Goshen, and the Indiana statewide median of $63,700 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Elkhart-Goshen

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 $18,941 to the $65,240 median and brings it to $84,181 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 Elkhart-Goshen

Of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between office managers ($75,180) and recruiters ($64,860). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,640.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen (-17.2%), between project coordinators (-15.3%) and executive assistants (-21.1%). The typical role here is at -7.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Elkhart-Goshen than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 6.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Elkhart-Goshen, 5.4% across Indiana and 5.7% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $54,440 in Muncie to $66,390 in Columbus, a gap of $11,950 a year. All 5 areas in Indiana with more marketing specialists than Elkhart-Goshen pay less, among them Indianapolis-Carmel, IN ($65,200) and Fort Wayne, IN ($61,730).

Elkhart-Goshen against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Elkhart-Goshen is #169 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Lexington-Fayette and Topeka pay just above Elkhart-Goshen and Cape Coral-Fort Myers and Appleton just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Elkhart-Goshen. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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