Marketing Specialist salary in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $45,200–$83,170. The top tenth earns $125,770 or more, 3.4 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 3.6 times. The mean ($69,640) 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 only $37,970 wide, against $45,650 across Ohio and $49,960 nationally: employers in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $15,700 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $22,270, or about $28,735 once benefits are added. 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 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $72,790 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the North Northeastern Ohio 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 $17,681 to the $60,900 median and brings it to $78,581 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 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($63,610) and executive assistants ($59,570). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,590.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area (-22.7%), between executive assistants (-22.2%) and sales development representatives (-23.0%). The typical role here is at -14.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area, 5.3% across Ohio and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $56,550 in Mansfield to $77,010 in Columbus, a gap of $20,460 a year. All 6 areas in Ohio with more marketing specialists than the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area also pay more, among them Cincinnati, OH-KY ($75,750) and Columbus, OH ($77,010).

the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area is #137 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Augusta-Richmond County and Prescott Valley-Prescott pay just above the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area and Sebastian-Vero Beach and Ocala just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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