Marketing Specialist salary in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area

Pay in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area against Michigan and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area earns $42,280–$71,500. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $99,080, only 2.8 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($62,350) is 17% 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 $29,220 wide, against $47,830 across Michigan and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Northern Michigan 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 $18,400 over the median, the 25th only $10,820 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $23,742 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area, and the Michigan statewide median of $66,780 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local marketing specialists earn.

What a hire really costs in the Northern Michigan 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 $15,416 to the $53,100 median and brings it to $68,516 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 Northern Michigan nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($57,570) and paralegals ($52,210). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,840.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area (-32.6%); virtual receptionists come first (-1.5%). The typical role here is at -15.0%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area, 6.0% across Michigan and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Michigan

Across the 19 areas of Michigan with data for this job, the median runs from $53,100 in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area to $77,100 in Detroit-Warren, a gap of $24,000 a year. All 10 areas in Michigan with more marketing specialists than the Northern Michigan nonmetro area also pay more, among them Detroit-Warren, MI ($77,100) and Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI ($64,880).

the Northern Michigan nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northern Michigan nonmetro area is #262 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Michigan, Alexandria and Owensboro pay just above the Northern Michigan nonmetro area and Tuscaloosa and Shreveport-Bossier City just below. All four are within $850 a year of the median in the Northern Michigan nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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