Marketing Specialist salary in Nashville-Murfreesboro, TN

Pay in Nashville-Murfreesboro against Tennessee and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $184,990 or more, 4.2 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of marketing specialists in Nashville-Murfreesboro earns $58,360–$108,690. The mean ($89,710) 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 $50,330 wide, wider than in Tennessee as a whole ($44,700) and the US ($49,960), so what a marketing specialist earns in Nashville-Murfreesboro 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 $31,450 over the median, the 25th only $18,880 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $40,581 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 Nashville-Murfreesboro, and the Tennessee statewide median of $69,790 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Nashville-Murfreesboro

At the $77,240 median, a local hire costs about $99,665 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $22,425 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 Nashville-Murfreesboro

Of the 17 roles we track in Nashville-Murfreesboro, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($78,080) and executive assistants ($73,700). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,990.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in Nashville-Murfreesboro (-1.9%), between medical administrative assistants (-0.8%) and virtual receptionists (-3.2%). The typical role here is at -3.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Marketing specialists hold 4.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Nashville-Murfreesboro, 3.6% across Tennessee and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $53,560 in the East Tennessee nonmetro area to $77,240 in Nashville-Murfreesboro, a gap of $23,680 a year. No other area in Tennessee has as many marketing specialists, and all 13 others pay less.

Nashville-Murfreesboro against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Nashville-Murfreesboro is #30 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Tennessee, Bend and Burlington pay just above Nashville-Murfreesboro and Rochester and Syracuse just below. All four are within $620 a year of the median in Nashville-Murfreesboro. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, none pays as much.

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